Data Lake for Enterprises

Distributed data stores

While relational data stores were very efficient in handling relational datasets, soon it was realized that they may not be the best fit for other types of data storage. These types of data included semi-structured and unstructured data. Keeping relational data stores scalable at very high volumes for data storage and access also involved complicated processes and practices. These challenges were recently addressed by a range of distributed data stores which came into existence as distributed file systems and NoSQL (Not only SQL) data stores. Hadoop has been one of the most popular distributed file systems, while there have been a number of NoSQL data stores that have come into existence, each one of them solves a ...