Zero ETL Archives - Kai Waehner

Apache Iceberg Open Table Format for Data Lake Lakehouse Streaming wtih Kafka Flink Databricks Snowflake AWS GCP Azure

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Apache Iceberg – The Open Table Format for Lakehouse AND Data Streaming

ByKai Waehner
13. July 2024
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An open table format framework like Apache Iceberg is essential in the enterprise architecture to ensure reliable data management and sharing, seamless schema evolution, efficient handling of large-scale datasets and cost-efficient storage. This blog post explores market trends, adoption of table format frameworks like Iceberg, Hudi, Paimon, Delta Lake and XTable, and the product strategy of leading vendors of data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks (Apache Spark), Confluent (Apache Kafka / Flink), Amazon Athena and Google BigQuery.

Snowflake and Apache Kafka Data Integration Anti Patterns Zero Reverse ETL

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Snowflake Integration Patterns: Zero ETL and Reverse ETL vs. Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
19. April 2024
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Snowflake is a leading cloud-native data warehouse. Integration patterns include batch data integration, Zero ETL and near real-time data ingestion with Apache Kafka. This blog post explores the different approaches and discovers its trade-offs. Following industry recommendations, it is suggested to avoid anti-patterns like Reverse ETL and instead use data streaming to enhance the flexibility, scalability, and maintainability of enterprise architecture.