Thursday, August 21, 2014
The lake and the stream: analogies to assist your big data strategy
The lake and the stream: analogies to assist your big data strategy 'Data lakes' and 'data streams' are becoming increasingly common analogies in the discussion on big data strategies. As in nature, both lakes and streams have their individual characteristics and are each important to the overall ecosystem. The question is: how do they relate to each other in the context of big data, and how can we best use them for better business outcomes?Data lakes represent large pools of data that have accumulated over time. Read more >