Analytics Services Flashcards
What is a data warehouse?
Is a data storage solution that aggregates massive amounts of historical data from disparate sources.
What are the advantages of data warehouse?
Data warehouses support querying, reporting, analytics, and business intelligence.
Data warehouse is used for transaction processing?
NO
What is Amazon Redshift?
Is a scalable data warehouse solution.
Does Amazon Redshift handles exabyte scale data?
YES
What is Athena?
Is a query service for Amazon S3.
Is Athena Serverles?
YES
How do you pay in Athena?
Pay per query.
What is Glue?
Prepares data for analytics.
Is Glue and ETL service?
YES
What is Kinesis?
Allows to analyze data and video streams in real time.
What formats does Kinesis support?
Video, audio, application logs, website, clickstreams and IoT.
What is Elastic MapReduce (EMR)?
Helps you to process large amounts of data.
What does EMR use to analyze data?
Hadoop.
What is data pipeline?
Helps move data between compute storage services running either on AWS or on-premises.
