A reliable and efficient data repository is the heart of a distributed system. If this data repository is created for analytics, then it is also called a data lake. A data repository brings together data from different domains into a single location. Let's start with first understanding different issues related to the storage of data in a distributed repository.
Presenting data storage algorithms
Understanding data storage strategies
In the initial years of digital computing, the usual way of designing a data repository was by using a single node architecture. With the ever-increasing sizes of datasets, distributed storage of data has now become mainstream. The right strategy to store data in a distributed environment...