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Data Lake Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Architecture and Use Cases

AltexSoft

In 2010, a transformative concept took root in the realm of data storage and analytics — a data lake. The term was coined by James Dixon , Back-End Java, Data, and Business Intelligence Engineer, and it started a new era in how organizations could store, manage, and analyze their data. What is a data lake?

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Charting A Path For Streaming Data To Fill Your Data Lake With Hudi

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Data lake architectures have largely been biased toward batch processing workflows due to the volume of data that they are designed for. With more real-time requirements and the increasing use of streaming data there has been a struggle to merge fast, incremental updates with large, historical analysis.

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Insights And Advice On Building A Data Lake Platform From Someone Who Learned The Hard Way

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Designing a data platform is a complex and iterative undertaking which requires accounting for many conflicting needs. Designing a platform that relies on a data lake as its central architectural tenet adds additional layers of difficulty. What are the elements that are still cumbersome or intractable?

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Data Lakehouse Architecture Explained: 5 Layers

Monte Carlo

You know what they always say: data lakehouse architecture is like an onion. …ok, Data lakehouse architecture combines the benefits of data warehouses and data lakes, bringing together the structure and performance of a data warehouse with the flexibility of a data lake.

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5 Layers of Data Lakehouse Architecture Explained

Monte Carlo

You know what they always say: data lakehouse architecture is like an onion. …ok, Data lakehouse architecture combines the benefits of data warehouses and data lakes, bringing together the structure and performance of a data warehouse with the flexibility of a data lake.

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Top Data Lake Vendors (Quick Reference Guide)

Monte Carlo

Data lakes are useful, flexible data storage repositories that enable many types of data to be stored in its rawest state. Traditionally, after being stored in a data lake, raw data was then often moved to various destinations like a data warehouse for further processing, analysis, and consumption.

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Straining Your Data Lake Through A Data Mesh

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The current trend in data management is to centralize the responsibilities of storing and curating the organization’s information to a data engineering team. This organizational pattern is reinforced by the architectural pattern of data lakes as a solution for managing storage and access.

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