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 lake stream in from a source to fill the lake, and various users of the lake can come to examine, dive in, or take samples." (Dixon, 2010)
Understanding the business requirements
Let's look at a fictional financial services company called Big Gains...
