If a data lake isn’t a data warehouse, as I proposed in my last post, then it behooves us to better understand more about this “new” data lake structure. In the fifth and final post in this series titled, Big Data Cheat Sheet on Hadoop, we’ll highlight some of the pros and cons of a data lake using a SWOT diagram.
Question 5: What are some of the pros and cons of a data lake?
This discussion comes from an online debate I had earlier this year with my colleague, Anne Buff, where we discussed....