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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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data lake

/ˈdeɪ.tə leɪk/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A folder, but you capitalized it.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A repository holding raw data in native formats at scale, schema applied on read rather than on write.

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See also
  • data swampTerm struck pending the definitions of quality, ownership, catalog, and lineage it was supposed to replace.
  • data warehouseWhere data goes to be agreed upon, eventually, by people who have since left.
  • ingestion layerThe door, drawn as a layer to justify a team.
  • lakehouseA lake that read the warehouse's performance review and panicked.