Hadoop Blueprints

Data Lake business requirements

Data lakes are supposed to provide access to structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data to users. The business requirements of data lakes drive what kind of data will be stored in a data lake and who will have access to it. In the next section, we will understand the business requirements of a company that wants to build a data lake.

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Origins of the word Data Lake

James Dixon, the founder and CTO of Pentaho, coined the term data lake in his blog. He has defined the concept of a Data Lake as follows:" If you think of a datamart as a store of bottled water - cleansed and packaged and structured for easy consumption - the data lake is a large body of water in a more natural state. The contents of the data ...