Data Lake for Enterprises

Context in Data Lake: data acquisition

One of the V’s of Big Data makes this chapter significant in all aspects in the modern era of any enterprise, namely Velocity. Traditionally, analytics was all done on data collected in the form of data (slow data), but nowadays analytics is done on data flowing in real time and then acted upon in real time to make a meaningful contribution to the business. The business outcome can be in the form of acting on a live Twitter stream of a customer to enhance customer experience or showing up a personalized offer by looking at some of his recent actions on your website. In this chapter, we will be covering mainly the Data Acquisition part of real-time data in our Data Lake.

In Chapter 5, Data Acquisition ...