Breaking the Data Warehouse Paradigm: What do your workloads really need?
The data warehouse has been the go-to solution for big data analytics for the last 40 years. The journey to the cloud delivered on the promise of devops and extreme agility. Moving your on-prem data warehouses to the cloud is a relatively easy task to execute and overall the cloud data warehouse delivers a decent balance between price and performance. But doing only that actually reduces the benefits of the cloud and the business impact it can deliver: faster time to market, competitive advantage, innovation etc. With the rise of the data lake as a strong and effective alternative, data teams need to shift their mindsets from thinking about infrastructure and how to make the workload (i.e. business questions) fit the data warehouse, to thinking the other way around — start with the analytics workloads, identify performance requirements, flexibility requirements, time-to-insights and budget. Only then data teams can turn to think outside of the “data warehouse box” on engineering solutions residing on top of the data lake.
In this session we’ll discuss the different considerations data teams should think about as they choose between the cloud data warehouse and the data lake to optimally serve business goals.
