Data Lake

AKA the second-generation data platform.

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  Sources       Raw Storage      Transforms    Users

Characteristics:

• Low-cost storage
• Open formats
• Variety of formats
• Structured and unstructured data
• No transactions
• No enforcement of data quality
• No consistency

References

• DataLake, https://martinfowler.com/bliki/DataLake.html
• An evolutionary history of enterprise data architectures, https://www.ibm.com/blogs/services/2021/08/03/an-evolutionary-history-of-enterprise-data-architectures/
• How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh, https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html