Audience
IT teams looking for an end-to-end solution to efficiently build a data lake
About Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Formation
A data lake is a centralized repository used for big data and AI computing. It allows you to store structured and unstructured data at any scale. Data Lake Formation (DLF) is a key component of the cloud-native data lake framework. DLF provides an easy way to build a cloud-native data lake. It seamlessly integrates with a variety of compute engines and allows you to manage the metadata in data lakes in a centralized manner and control enterprise-class permissions. Systematically collects structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data and supports massive data storage. Uses an architecture that separates computing from storage. You can plan resources on demand at low costs. This improves data processing efficiency to meet the rapidly changing business requirements. DLF can automatically discover and collect metadata from multiple engines and manage the metadata in a centralized manner to solve the data silo issues.
Other Popular Alternatives & Related Software
Data Lakes on AWS
Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers require a data storage and analytics solution that offers more agility and flexibility than traditional data management systems. A data lake is a new and increasingly popular way to store and analyze data because it allows companies to manage multiple data types from a wide variety of sources, and store this data, structured and unstructured, in a centralized repository. The AWS Cloud provides many of the building blocks required to help customers implement a secure, flexible, and cost-effective data lake. These include AWS managed services that help ingest, store, find, process, and analyze both structured and unstructured data. To support our customers as they build data lakes, AWS offers the data lake solution, which is an automated reference implementation that deploys a highly available, cost-effective data lake architecture on the AWS Cloud along with a user-friendly console for searching and requesting datasets.
Learn more
BigLake
BigLake is a storage engine that unifies data warehouses and lakes by enabling BigQuery and open-source frameworks like Spark to access data with fine-grained access control. BigLake provides accelerated query performance across multi-cloud storage and open formats such as Apache Iceberg. Store a single copy of data with uniform features across data warehouses & lakes. Fine-grained access control and multi-cloud governance over distributed data. Seamless integration with open-source analytics tools and open data formats. Unlock analytics on distributed data regardless of where and how it’s stored, while choosing the best analytics tools, open source or cloud-native over a single copy of data. Fine-grained access control across open source engines like Apache Spark, Presto, and Trino, and open formats such as Parquet. Performant queries over data lakes powered by BigQuery. Integrates with Dataplex to provide management at scale, including logical data organization.
Learn more
ELCA Smart Data Lake Builder
Classical Data Lakes are often reduced to basic but cheap raw data storage, neglecting significant aspects like transformation, data quality and security. These topics are left to data scientists, who end up spending up to 80% of their time acquiring, understanding and cleaning data before they can start using their core competencies. In addition, classical Data Lakes are often implemented by separate departments using different standards and tools, which makes it harder to implement comprehensive analytical use cases. Smart Data Lakes solve these various issues by providing architectural and methodical guidelines, together with an efficient tool to build a strong high-quality data foundation. Smart Data Lakes are at the core of any modern analytics platform. Their structure easily integrates prevalent Data Science tools and open source technologies, as well as AI and ML. Their storage is cheap and scalable, supporting both unstructured data and complex data structures.
Learn more
Amazon Redshift
More customers pick Amazon Redshift than any other cloud data warehouse. Redshift powers analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. Companies like Lyft have grown with Redshift from startups to multi-billion dollar enterprises. No other data warehouse makes it as easy to gain new insights from all your data. With Redshift you can query petabytes of structured and semi-structured data across your data warehouse, operational database, and your data lake using standard SQL. Redshift lets you easily save the results of your queries back to your S3 data lake using open formats like Apache Parquet to further analyze from other analytics services like Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, and Amazon SageMaker. Redshift is the world’s fastest cloud data warehouse and gets faster every year. For performance intensive workloads you can use the new RA3 instances to get up to 3x the performance of any cloud data warehouse.
Learn more
Integrations
Company Information
Alibaba Cloud
Founded: 2008
China
www.alibabacloud.com/es/product/datalake-formation
Videos and Screen Captures
Other Useful Business Software
Retool your internal operations
Build internal software that meets enterprise security standards without waiting on engineering resources. Retool connects to your databases, APIs, and data sources while maintaining the permissions and controls you need. Create custom dashboards, admin tools, and workflows from natural language prompts—all deployed in your cloud with security baked in. Stop duct-taping operations together, start building in Retool.
Product Details
Platforms Supported
Cloud
Training
Documentation
Webinars
Videos
Support
Phone Support
Online
