2 Why a data platform and not just a data warehouse
This chapter covers
- Answering “Why a data platform?” and “Why build in the cloud?”
- Comparing data platform to data warehouse–only solutions
- Processing differences in structured and semi-structured data
- Comparing cloud costs for data warehouse and data platform
We’ve covered what a data platform is (as a reminder, it is “a cloud-native platform capable of cost-effectively ingesting, integrating, transforming, and managing an almost unlimited amount of data of any type data in order to facilitate analytics outcomes”), what drives the need for a data platform, and how changes in data will shape your data platform. Now we will explore in more detail why a cloud data platform provides more capabilities ...
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