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Cloud Data Warehouse: A Comprehensive Guide

Astera

The “cloud” part means that instead of managing physical servers and infrastructure, everything happens in the cloud environment—offsite servers take care of the heavy lifting, and you can access your data and analytics tools over the internet without the need for downloading or setting up any software or applications.

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Should You Have Separate Document, Time-Series, NoSQL and SQL Databases or Can a Single Database Support All of These Data Types and Requirements?

Actian

In general, the more APIs, underlying database architectures, resulting differences in supporting file formats, management, and monitoring systems and changes in which ones you use based on use case simply increase the complexity of your enterprise data architectures.