Data Lake for Enterprises

Challenges faced by enterprise Data Lake

It's good to be aware of challenges that you could face while building and managing an enterprise Data Lake. Here we are only discussing the various technical challenges, adoption and business buy-in for a Data Lake and support for this initiative from higher management and so on is not discussed here. Some of those challenges along with our suggested mitigation are as given:

Challenge #1: If you are using open source freely available technologies for building your Data Lake, keeping up with the pace with that these technologies grow can be quite challenging and daunting task. Mitigation #1: Going with commercial products like Cloudera, Hortonworks and so on can be an option if the Data Lake is adopted ...