Data Lakes for Dummies by Simon, Alan R. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Introduction

About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here

Part 1: Getting Started with Data Lakes

Chapter 1: Jumping into the Data Lake

What Is a Data Lake? The Data Lake Olympics Data Lakes and Big Data The Data Lake Water Gets Murky

Chapter 2: Planning Your Day (and the Next Decade) at the Data Lake

Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day with Big Data Managing Equal Opportunity Data Building Today’s — and Tomorrow’s — Enterprise Analytical Data Environment Reducing Existing Stand-Alone Data Marts Eliminating Future Stand-Alone Data Marts Establishing a Migration Path for Your Data Warehouses Aligning Data with Decision Making Speedboats, Canoes, and Lake Cruises: Traversing the Variable-Speed Data Lake Managing Overall Analytical Costs

Chapter 3: Break Out the Life Vests: Tackling Data Lake Challenges

That’s Not a Data Lake, This Is a Data Lake! Exposing Data Lake Myths and Misconceptions Navigating Your Way through the Storm on the Data Lake Building the Data Lake of Dreams Performing Regular Data Lake Tune-ups — Or Else! Technology Marches Forward

Part 2: Building the Docks, Avoiding the Rocks

Chapter 4: Imprinting Your Data Lake on a Reference Architecture

Playing Follow the Leader Guiding Principles of a Data Lake Reference Architecture A Reference Architecture for Your Data Lake Reference Architecture Incoming! Filling Your Data Lake Supporting the Fleet Sailing on Your Data Lake The Old Meets the New at the Data Lake Bringing Outside Water into Your Data Lake Playing at the Edge of the Lake

Chapter 5: Anybody Hungry? Ingesting and Storing Raw Data in Your Bronze Zone

Ingesting Data with the Best of Both Worlds Joining the Data Ingestion Fraternity Storing Data in Your Bronze Zone Just Passing Through: The Cross-Zone Express Lane Taking Inventory at the Data Lake Bringing Analytics to Your Bronze Zone

Chapter 6: Your Data Lake’s Water Treatment Plant: The Silver Zone

Funneling Data further into the Data Lake Bringing Master Data into Your Data Lake Impacting the Bronze Zone Getting Clever with Your Storage Options Working Hand-in-Hand with Your Gold Zone

Chapter 7: Bottling Your Data Lake Water in the Gold Zone

Laser-Focusing on the Purpose of the Gold Zone Looking Inside the Gold Zone Deciding What Data to Curate in Your Gold Zone Seeing What Happens When Your Curated Data Becomes Less Useful

Chapter 8: Playing in the Sandbox

Developing New Analytical Models in Your Sandbox Comparing Different Data Lake Architectural Options Experimenting and Playing Around with Data

Chapter 9: Fishing in the Data Lake

Starting with the Latest Guidebook Taking It Easy at the Data Lake Staying in Your Lane Doing a Little Bit of Exploring Putting on Your Gear and Diving Underwater

Chapter 10: Rowing End-to-End across the Data Lake

Keeping versus Discarding Data Components Getting Started with Your Data Lake Shifting Your Focus to Data Ingestion Finishing Up with the Sandbox

Part 3: Evaporating the Data Lake into the Cloud

Chapter 11: A Cloudy Day at the Data Lake

Rushing to the Cloud Running through Some Cloud Computing Basics The Big Guys in the Cloud Computing Game

Chapter 12: Building Data Lakes in Amazon Web Services

The Elite Eight: Identifying the Essential Amazon Services Looking at the Rest of the Amazon Data Lake Lineup Building Data Pipelines in AWS

Chapter 13: Building Data Lakes in Microsoft Azure

Setting Up the Big Picture in Azure The Magnificent Seven, Azure Style Filling Out the Azure Data Lake Lineup Assembling the Building Blocks

Part 4: Cleaning Up the Polluted Data Lake

Chapter 14: Figuring Out If You Have a Data Swamp Instead of a Data Lake

Designing Your Report Card and Grading System Looking at the Raw Data Lockbox Knowing What to Do When Your Data Lake Is Out of Order Too Fast, Too Slow, Just Right: Dealing with Data Lake Velocity and Latency Dividing the Work in Your Component Architecture Tallying Your Scores and Analyzing the Results

Chapter 15: Defining Your Data Lake Remediation Strategy

Setting Your Key Objectives Doing Your Gap Analysis Identifying Resolutions Establishing Timelines Defining Your Critical Success Factors

Chapter 16: Refilling Your Data Lake

The Three S’s: Setting the Stage for Success Refining and Enriching Existing Raw Data Making Better Use of Existing Refined Data Building New Pipelines with Newly Ingested Raw Data

Part 5: Making Trips to the Data Lake a Tradition

Chapter 17: Checking Your GPS: The Data Lake Road Map

Getting an Overhead View of the Road to the Data Lake Assessing Your Current State of Data and Analytics Putting Together a Lofty Vision Building Your Data Lake Architecture Deciding on Your Kickoff Activities Expanding Your Data Lake

Chapter 18: Booking Future Trips to the Data Lake

Searching for the All-in-One Data Lake Spreading Artificial Intelligence Smarts throughout Your Data Lake

Part 6: The Part of Tens

Chapter 19: Top Ten Reasons to Invest in Building a Data Lake

Supporting the Entire Analytics Continuum Bringing Order to Your Analytical Data throughout Your Enterprise Retiring Aging Data Marts Bringing Unfulfilled Analytics Ideas out of Dry Dock Laying a Foundation for Future Analytics Providing a Region for Experimentation Improving Your Master Data Efforts Opening Up New Business Possibilities Keeping Up with the Competition Getting Your Organization Ready for the Next Big Thing

Chapter 20: Ten Places to Get Help for Your Data Lake

Cloud Provider Professional Services Major Systems Integrators Smaller Systems Integrators Individual Consultants Training Your Internal Staff Industry Analysts Data Lake Bloggers Data Lake Groups and Forums Data-Oriented Associations Academic Resources

Chapter 21: Ten Differences between a Data Warehouse and a Data Lake

Types of Data Supported Data Volumes Different Internal Data Models Architecture and Topology ETL versus ELT Data Latency Analytical Uses Incorporating New Data Sources User Communities Hosting

Index About the Author Connect with Dummies End User License Agreement

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