What is a data lake?
Today, the promise of big data to transform business outcomes is immense. Companies trust big data, to gain key insights and competitive advantage since big data create growth in new and unexpected ways. What is Big Data? Your data is simply data unless it is processed. Big data in simple words, is a large amount of data that has been stored in databases, cloud, and other file storage systems. Webopedia defines big data as a large volume of both structured and unstructured data sets that is difficult to process using traditional database and software techniques. This means that Big Data storage can be structured or unstructured. The collection of both structured and unstructured data in digital format is Big data. What is structured data? As the name suggests, this data storage follows a structure. The structure involves storing files in databases based on structured file formats (e.g. relational databases). This makes them very easy to search. Structured Query La...