The Modern Data Warehouse in Azure: Building with Speed and Agility on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform

© Matt How 2020

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5. The Role of the Data Lake

Matt How¹ 

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Alton, UK

 

As the data needs of a business change, the methods to store, organize, and audit data need to change as well. Big data is the buzz word of the day, and big data needs a scalable storage platform. Multimedia files such as images, videos, and audio files need to be co-located and reported against, and so a platform that can accommodate such diverse data types is required. A modern data platform may also need to ingest data at incredibly high speeds, and having a platform that can cope with streaming and scale accordingly is essential. There is such a variety of requirements for data storage with modern ...