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Data & Analytics · Foundational

Data Ingestion

The process of importing data from sources into a storage or processing platform, in batches or as a stream.

Definition

Ingestion methods include file loads, API pulls, database replication or CDC, and event streaming. Services include Snowpipe, Auto Loader, AWS DMS, Amazon Data Firehose, Pub/Sub, Datastream, Event Hubs and Fabric Eventstream.

Exam tip

Match the ingestion tool to latency needs: batch file loads versus continuous streaming.

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