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Friday, February 26, 2016

Experiences with Data Lakes

Just recently exposed to the use of a data lake for exploratory analytics with highly disparate data.   This article provides some alternative use cases and experiences.   In CWorld: 

  ' ... "Our goal was to inject data into our businesses as fast as possible to be able to see new opportunities," says Bryson Koehler, executive vice president, CTO and CIO of The Weather Company. "It's not realistic for a business to go dark on a project for any extended period of time just to clean up data. So much changes on a daily basis -- so many new sources of data -- that that journey would never be complete."

Koehler wanted to bring in data from anywhere it originated, including personal weather stations and Internet of Things sensors, to enrich analysis. With traditional data warehouses, this would have been near impossible because of the unstructured nature of the new data, the volume, and the lengthy development time necessary to process and validate it. ... ' 

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