What is AWS Lake Formation?
It is a fully managed service that makes it easier for you to build, secure, and manage data lakes. It simplifies and automates many of the complex manual steps that are usually required to create data lakes. These steps include collecting, cleansing, moving, and cataloging data, and securely making that data available for analytics and machine learning.
AWS Lake Formation is a tool in the Big Data as a Service category of a tech stack.
Who uses AWS Lake Formation?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use AWS Lake Formation in their tech stacks, including Data & Insights, Stoneridge Brasil, and enmacc.
Developers
AWS Lake Formation's Features
- Fully managed service
- Build, secure, and manage data lakes
AWS Lake Formation Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to AWS Lake Formation?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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