Sprinkle Data

In this digital world, everyday great volumes of data are being generated from varied sources, and companies want to give this data a form and structure by assembling it in an organized way and at a unified place to use it to their advantage. They want to analyze their data further to get a good understanding and to make well-informed data-driven decisions. To bring meaning to this raw data, ETL tools play a significant role and help businesses to take data analytics to the next level. There are several ETL tools available in the market which automate this whole process of building data-pipeline, managing and monitoring them. In this article, we will understand the whole process of ETL in detail and ETL tools that are best suited to automate your data pipelines for accurate analysis. What is ETL?‍ ETL stands for “Extract, Transform and Load”. ETL is a process of extracting data from different data sources, cleansing and organizing it, and eventually, loading it to a target data w...

What is Snowflake? Snowflake is a cloud data platform that supports multiple features, including handling large workloads. It gives secured access to data, offering scalability and better performance, and its easy-to-use platform is delivered as a service (Saas). Snowflake provides software as a service model which requires little maintenance helping customers to only focus on accumulating value from data without focusing much on platform maintenance often these qualities are offered by the right data warehouse. Traditional data warehouses were inflexible, pricey, and difficult to use but modern data warehouses came to the rescue revolutionizing the cloud technologies offering pricing models according to requirements rather than a subscription model preventing customers from overpaying and a utilization model where one uses resources according to needs, providing great scalability. One such data warehouse is Snowflake which provides numerous features and functionalities hence helping...