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Data Analytics & Visualization All-in-One For Dummies
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Data Analytics & Visualization All-in-One For Dummies

by Jack A. Hyman, Luca Massaron, Paul McFedries, John Paul Mueller, Lillian Pierson, Jonathan Reichental, Joseph Schmuller, Alan R. Simon, Allen G. Taylor
April 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
832 pages
20h 32m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 3

Understanding Data Lakes

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Architecting data lakes for stability

Bullet Seeing how data lakes are structured

Bullet Planning for scalability

Bullet Grasping how data lakes function as an environment

Bullet Understanding how data lakes handle various data types

Bullet Working with analytical and operational data

Bullet Controlling the latency of data copied into a data lake

Bullet Seeing how data lakes overcome the shortfalls of enterprise data warehousing

Ask your favorite search engine this question: “What’s a data lake?” You’ll find dozens of high-level definitions that will almost certainly spur plenty of follow-up questions as you try to get your arms around the idea of a data lake.

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