Data Lake for Enterprises

Polyglot data access

Polyglot is a very common word in computing, which means, multiple.

In the serving layer there will be multiple data stores (persistence mechanism) being used to store the same data in a variety of models as dictated by the use cases. We really don't know whether there is a term like Polyglot data access in the industry. By polyglot data access, we mean, existence of multiple data stores in the serving layer, which are being used by serving layer to churn various data services to the end users.

In our Data Lake we already have polyglot data access in action by using Elasticsearch, Hive and HBase as the data access stores.

The concept of Polyglot access can be further extended into persisting parts of information held ...