Data Lake

Data Lakes are repositories of data stored in its natural/raw format, typically blobs (binary large objects) and files.

Object Types

Examples of Data Lake data types include:

• Blobs

• CSV Files

• Log Files

• XML Files

• JSON Files

• Email Files

• PDF Files

• Image Files

• Audio Files

• Video Files

Storage and Retrieval Process

The Data Lake storage and retrieval process can be expressed as follows:

Products and Services

Data Lake products and services include:

• Amazon S3 Data Lake

• Apache Hadoop (using various Hadoop capabilities)

• Google Cloud Storage Data Lake

• IBM Data Lake

• Microsoft Azure Data Lake

References

• Web Search

• Wikipedia Article

• YouTube Search