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What is HTAP? A plain-English guide to hybrid transactional/analytical processing
An explainer from Databricks on What is HTAP? A plain-English guide to hybrid transactional/analytical processing. A good starting point for Data Platforms; no prior experience is assumed. It opens on the publisher's site in a new tab.
Databricks
Databricks Training and Certification
Databricks' free self-paced courses on data engineering, analytics, machine learning and generative AI on the lakehouse.
Databricks
Get Started Tutorials on Databricks
Databricks' official first-steps tutorials: querying data, building a notebook, creating a pipeline and a dashboard on the free edition.
Databricks
Get Started with Microsoft Fabric
Free Microsoft Learn modules on Fabric, Microsoft's all-in-one analytics platform: lakehouses, data pipelines, warehouses and Power BI in one place.
Microsoft Learn
Getting Started with Snowflake
Snowflake's official hands-on guide: loading data, running queries, sharing data and the basics of the Snowflake cloud data platform, using a free trial.
Snowflake
Getting started with Apache Iceberg write support in Amazon Redshift – Part 3
An article from Amazon Web Services on Getting started with Apache Iceberg write support in Amazon Redshift. A good starting point for Data Platforms; no prior experience is assumed. It opens on the publisher's site in a new tab.
Amazon Web Services