30 Questions
What was the significance of the initial Hadoop data lakes?
They were the precursors of the modern data lake.
What was the primary advantage of Spark over Hadoop?
Spark was 100 times faster than Hadoop.
Why is Spark increasingly popular among data practitioners?
Because it's easy to use, performs well on benchmarks, and provides additional functionality.
What is the primary role of Spark in modern data architectures?
Data processing and transformation.
What is a limitation of traditional data lakes?
They do not support transactions.
What is the purpose of cheap blob storage like AWS S3 and Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage?
To store data in the cloud.
What was the primary objective of data architects when they began collecting large amounts of data from different sources?
To create a single system for storing data
What has been the primary driver for data teams to rethink their data management approaches?
The emergence of the cloud
What is a key characteristic of the lakehouse architecture?
It merges the best parts from data lakes and data warehouses
What type of data was primarily used in company products and decision making in the past?
Structured data from operational systems
What is a key difference between traditional data warehouse use cases and modern data management needs?
The incorporation of artificial intelligence
What is the primary benefit of the lakehouse architecture?
It radically simplifies the enterprise data infrastructure
What is a major challenge when dealing with data lakes?
They lack consistency and are isolated, making it hard to mix appends and reads
What is a common consequence of using multiple systems for diverse data applications?
Additional complexity and data transfer delays
What type of data are data warehouses not optimized for?
Unstructured data (text, images, video, audio)
What has driven recent advances in AI?
Development of better models to process unstructured data
What is a common approach to addressing diverse data application needs?
Using multiple specialized systems (e.g., data lake, data warehouse, streaming database)
What is a limitation of using multiple systems for diverse data applications?
Delays and complexity in moving data between systems
What is a challenge of using data lakes?
Achieving great performance with big data
What is a key feature of the lakehouse approach?
Support for real-time transactions
How does the lakehouse architecture handle metadata?
By treating it as regular data and leveraging distributed processing power
What is a benefit of using ACID transactions in the lakehouse?
Fine-grained updates and real-time consistency
What is a potential drawback of using data lakes?
Data quality issues due to manual techniques
What is a key advantage of the lakehouse over traditional data lakes?
Reliability, performance, and quality attributes
What is the primary benefit of Delta Engine in a lakehouse?
High performance for all workloads
What is a key feature of the vectorized query engine in Delta Engine?
Faster string processing and elided null checks
What is a key advantage of Delta Engine's intelligent caching?
Up to ten times performance improvement in interactive and reporting workloads
What is a key component of Delta Engine's improved query optimizer?
Cost-based optimizer
What type of hardware does Delta Engine's vectorized query engine leverage?
Modern Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) hardware
What is the compatibility of Delta Engine with respect to Spark APIs?
Fully compatible
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