Skip to Content
Data Lake for Enterprises
book

Data Lake for Enterprises

by Vivek Mishra, Tomcy John, Pankaj Misra
May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
596 pages
15h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Data Lake for Enterprises

Metadata

Metadata is structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource. Metadata is often called data about data or information about information.
- National Information Standards Organization (http://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf)

As detailed in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata), metadata is classified into three:

  • Descriptive metadata: information/data for a resource making it possible for discovery and identification falls under this category of metadata
  • Structural metadata: information/data of a container that describes how compound objects inside is composed or build or put together
  • Administrative metadata ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

The Enterprise Big Data Lake

The Enterprise Big Data Lake

Alex Gorelik
Operationalizing the Data Lake

Operationalizing the Data Lake

Holden Ackerman, Jon King

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781787281349