A Guide to Strategize with Azure Data Lake
A data lake is a centralized repository designed to store a vast amount of structured and unstructured data. The concept, introduced by James Dixon, CTO of Pentaho, was developed to address the limitations of traditional data marts.
Traditional data marts often struggle to provide comprehensive insights because they only analyze a subset of attributes, answering predetermined questions. This approach restricts users from gaining deep, actionable knowledge from all available data.