Data storage: transactions vs. analytics

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 1:49 a.m.

b'Data scientists and software engineers both work with databases, but they use them for different purposes. So if you\\u2019re a data scientist thinking about the best way to store and access data for your analytics, you\\u2019ll likely come up with a very different set of requirements than a software engineer looking to power an application. Hence the split between analytics and transactional databases\\u2014certain technologies are designed for one or the other, but no single type of database is perfect for both use cases. In this episode we\\u2019ll talk about the differences between transactional and analytics databases, so no matter whether you\\u2019re an analytics person or more of a classical software engineer, you can understand the needs of your colleagues on the other side.'