Data Lake for Enterprises

Serving layer - data delivery and exports

The Lambda Architecture also emphasizes the criticality of how the data is served or delivered to the consuming application. Data, as we know, can be delivered in multiple ways between systems. However, one of the most common ways to deliver data is via services. In the context of a Data Lake, these services may be called Data Services that may deliver primarily data.

One of the other ways to deliver data is via exports. The data in its final form can be exported as messages, files, data dumps, and so on for other systems to consume.

The primary focus while delivering/serving data is to have the data in the desired form. This form can be enforced as a data contract whether the data is served by services ...