Data Lake for Enterprises

File stores

Business applications are ever changing, and new applications allow the end users to capture data in different formats apart from keying in data (using a keyboard), which are structured in nature.

Another way in which the end users now feed in data is in the form of documents in different formats. Some of the well-known formats are as follows:

• Different document formats (PDF, DOC, XLS, and so on)
• Binary formats
  • Image-based formats (JPG, PNG, and so on)
  • Audio formats (MP3, RAM, AC3)
  • Video formats (MP4, MPEG, MKV)

As you saw in the previous sections, dealing with structured data itself is in question, and now we are bringing in the analysis of unstructured data. But analysis of this data is also as important nowadays as structured ...