Example of a database that can be used by a data lake (in this case structured data) A data lake is a system or repository of data stored in its natural/raw format,[1] usually object blobs or files. A data lake is usually a single store of data including raw copies of source system data, sensor data, social data etc.,[2] and transformed data used for tasks such as reporting, visualization, advance
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