An Introduction to Data Lake

K.V.N. Rajesh*, K.V.N. Ramesh**
* HOD, Department of Information Technology, Vignan’s Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam, India.
** Project Manager, Tech Mahindra, Visakhapatnam, India.
Periodicity:March - May'2016
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jit.5.2.5997

Abstract

Now-a-days companies are concentrating on more data to take informed decisions. Companies that are able to effectively use data are the world leaders in terms of wealth, development and growth. Even to survive, operate and compete in this age, organizations need to be able to effectively use their data. Huge amount of investment is made in storing and processing large amounts of data to make better decisions. Data lake is a massive, easily accessible data store/repository that allows for collecting large volumes of structured and unstructured data in its native format from disparate data sources. This paper describes Data Lake, Schema-on-Write, Schema-on-Read, Characteristics and implementation of data lake.

Keywords

Data Lake, Schema-on-Write, Schema-on-Read.

How to Cite this Article?

Rajesh K. V. N and Ramesh. K. V. N (2016). An Introduction to Data Lake. i-manager’s Journal on Information Technology, 5(2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.26634/jit.5.2.5997

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