Data Lake for Enterprises

Comprehensive Concepts of a Data Lake

The concept of a Data Lake in an enterprise was driven by certain challenges that enterprises were facing with the way the data was handled, processed and stored. Initially, all the individual applications in the enterprise, via a natural evolution cycle, started maintaining huge amounts of data themselves with almost no reuse in other applications in the same enterprise. These created information silos across various applications. As the next step of evolution, these individual applications started exposing this data across the organization as a data mart access layer over the central data warehouse. While Data Mart solved one part of the problem, other problems still persisted. These problems were more ...