Data Lake for Enterprises

Data acquisition layer

In Chapter 2, Comprehensive Concepts of a Data Lake you got a glimpse of the data acquisition layer. This layer’s responsibility is to gather information from various source systems and induct it into the data lake. This figure will refresh your memory and give you a good pictorial view of this layer:

Figure 01: Data lake - data acquisition layer

The acquisition layer should be able to handle the following:

• Bulk data: Bulk data in the form of regular batches or micro-batches, as the case may be. Sqoop is able to handle huge amounts of bulk data and integrate it with the legacy applications datastore residing in traditional ...