Data Lake for Enterprises

Approaches to building a Data Lake

Different organizations would prefer to build the data lake in different ways, depending on where the organisation is in terms of the business, processes, and systems.

A simple data lake may be as good as defining a central data source, and all systems may use this central data source for all the data needs. Though this approach may be simple and look very lucrative, it may not be a very practical way for the following reasons:

• This approach would be feasible only if the organizations are building their information systems from scratch
• This approach does not solve the problems of existing systems
• Even if organization decides to build the data lake with this approach, there is a lack of clarity of responsibility ...