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Data Engineering

Standards in the catalog that belong to data engineering — 10 of them. A standard is listed here only when it is specific to this industry; the general-purpose ones it also relies on, like HTTP, OAuth and JSON Schema, deliberately carry no domain.

The same industry, as data models

5 data models define what information exists in data engineering, as opposed to the standards applied in API operations listed below. Same industry, two lenses.

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StandardWhat it is
Apache Arrow Apache Arrow is a language-independent columnar memory format specification for flat and hierarchical data, optimized for analytics on modern hardw...
Apache Hudi Apache Hudi is an open table format built around incremental processing — upserts, deletes and change streams over data lake tables. Where the othe...
Apache Iceberg Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets sitting on object storage. It adds a metadata layer above the data files — ...
Avro Apache Avro is a data serialization system that provides compact binary encoding of structured data along with schema definitions, enabling efficie...
Data Modeling Data modeling is the practice of defining the structure, relationships, and constraints of data so that information can be organized, stored, and a...
Data Warehouse Schemas Organizational patterns for structuring data in warehouses, including star schema, snowflake schema, and galaxy schema designs that optimize query ...
Delta Lake Delta Lake is an open table format and transaction protocol that brings ACID transactions, versioning and schema enforcement to data lakes. Origina...
Dimensional Modeling A data modeling technique used in data warehousing that structures data into fact tables containing measurable metrics and dimension tables contain...
Lakehouse Architecture A data architecture paradigm that combines the best features of data lakes and data warehouses, providing ACID transactions, schema enforcement, an...
Parquet Apache Parquet is an open source, column-oriented data file format designed for efficient data storage and retrieval. It provides efficient data co...
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