Yeah, that's exactly the kind of content I found unsuitable when I did a web search for the term. It spends a whole two sentences giving an explanation that tells me very little about how data lakes are anything more specific than a cloud-hosted database solution, and moves on to
> Organizations that successfully generate business value from their data, will outperform their peers.
at which point I'm like
> ok, I'm reading a covert advertisement about Fancy Cloud Technology aimed at some kind of big-spending manager, which is unlikely to tell me meaningfully what this actually is
and I'm out. I was looking for content that was in a more neutral, purely educational genre, and wondering what collection of non-cloud analogues it replaces/is composed of. Someone writing in the comments
> I used it to transform several terabytes of JSON into nice relational data for analysts without too much effort
is way, way more direct and helpful than mentioning that 'unlike data warehouses, data lakes support non-relational data'. Like great, it's a cloud thing that supports a variety of databases. But what is it?
> before giving us your hot take in a comment
I didn't give any take at all? I just really found all the sources that came up on the first page of search results to be almost in the wrong genre for me, and expected (correctly) that people on this site would be able to produce descriptions in 1-5 sentences that worked way better for me.
Pretty much all of the answers I got here were really good, and I'm glad I asked.
> Organizations that successfully generate business value from their data, will outperform their peers.
at which point I'm like
> ok, I'm reading a covert advertisement about Fancy Cloud Technology aimed at some kind of big-spending manager, which is unlikely to tell me meaningfully what this actually is
and I'm out. I was looking for content that was in a more neutral, purely educational genre, and wondering what collection of non-cloud analogues it replaces/is composed of. Someone writing in the comments
> I used it to transform several terabytes of JSON into nice relational data for analysts without too much effort
is way, way more direct and helpful than mentioning that 'unlike data warehouses, data lakes support non-relational data'. Like great, it's a cloud thing that supports a variety of databases. But what is it?
> before giving us your hot take in a comment
I didn't give any take at all? I just really found all the sources that came up on the first page of search results to be almost in the wrong genre for me, and expected (correctly) that people on this site would be able to produce descriptions in 1-5 sentences that worked way better for me.
Pretty much all of the answers I got here were really good, and I'm glad I asked.