Akhil Mahajan

Data Lake Concepts Data Lake: A centralized repository that stores raw data in its native format, structured and unstructured, at any scale. Raw Zone: The area in a data lake where data is ingested in its original format, without any transformation. Cleansed Zone: Contains data that has been cleaned and structured to a usable form. Curated Zone: Contains refined, business-ready data used for analytics and reporting. Schema-on-Read: A data processing approach where the data schema is applied only when the data is read, rather than when it's written. Data Ingestion: The process of importing data into a data lake from various sources. Data Catalog: A metadata repository that helps users find and understand data assets. Data Lakehouse: A hybrid architecture that combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses, enabling both structured querying and large-scale data processing. Object Storage: Storage architecture that manages data as objects, used in data lakes (e.g....