Analytics Services Flashcards
What is a data warehouse?
A data warehouse is a data storage solution that aggregates massive amounts of historical data from disparate sources
What are the benefits of a data warehouse?
Data warehouses support querying, reporting, analytics, and business intelligence. They are not used for transaction processing.
Whats is AWS data warehouse solution?
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift
Redshift is a scalable data warehouse solution. Handles exabyte-scale data.
What is Redshift used for?
Data consolidation - When you need to consolidate multiple data sources for reporting
Relational Database - When you want to run a database that doesn’t require real-time transaction processing (insert, update, and delete)
What are AWS analytic Services?
Athena - helps query data Glue - prepares data for analytics Kinesis - analyze data and video streams Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Data Pipeline - helps move data QuickSight - helps visualize data
Athena
Athena is a query service for Amazon S3.
Glue
Glue prepares your data for analytics.
Kinesis
Kinesis allows you to analyze data and video streams in real time.
Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
EMR helps you process large amounts of data.
Data Pipeline
Data Pipeline helps you move data between compute
and storage services running either on AWS or on-premises.
QuickSight
QuickSight helps you visualize your data.