Analyze Data Faster with an Open Source Columnar Database

For a data analyst, financial analytics is one of the most useful skill sets to inculcate given the rapid growth of roles in this booming sector. A specialisation in this field will be a value-add given the rapid rise of fintech in India’s digital ecosystem. Financial analytics helps companies uncover deeper insights into the company’s finances and can help in finding pain points and new streams of revenue. Financial Analysts work in investment firms, banks, insurance sector and digital payments companies.

Equifax analysis indicates that approximately 91.5 million consumers in the US either have no credit file, or have insufficient information in the file to generate a traditional credit score. Your visibility into credit applicants determines whether you will offer more loans or miss profitable opportunities. By giving you incre

Register for this on-demand webinar with the co-founder of Alation where we’ll deep dive into the Data Catalog. You’ll learn why a data catalog is essential for data-driven organizations, methods and tools to democratize your data, and how automation is crucial for consistent re-use of data.

Today’s data-driven companies have a choice to make – where do we store our data? As the move to the cloud continues to be a driving factor, the choice becomes either the data warehouse (Snowflake et al) or the data lake (AWS S3 et al). There are pro’s and con’s for each approach. While the data warehouse will give you strong data management with analytics, they don’t do well with semi-structured and unstructured data with tightly coupled storage and compute, not to mention expensive vendor lock-in. On the other hand, data lakes allow you to store all kinds of data and are extremely affordable, but they’re only meant for storage and by themselves provide no direct value to an organization.