Data Lake for Enterprises

Service Types

In serving layer one of the ways by that you can expose data for analysis is by exposing Representational State Transfer (REST) endpoints over HTTP(S). You could very well expose web services based on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). that option is better, REST or SOAP, is not the question to be answered here. We are using REST over SOAP because of some advantages as follows:

• REST is easy compared to SOAP
• REST can exposed services in various data formats, JSON being one of them and is considered lightweight and easy on network and easier/faster to parse
• Works quite well with the internet protocol (HTTP)
• Using RESTful services over HTTP brings in all advantages of inherent HTTP protocol like:
  • Understood by many technologies ...