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Data Lake Development with Big Data

You're reading from   Data Lake Development with Big Data Explore architectural approaches to building Data Lakes that ingest, index, manage, and analyze massive amounts of data using Big Data technologies

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785888083
Pages 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Understanding Data Governance

Let us now understand the definition of Data Governance; how it is critical in an enterprise handling Big Data and how it is different from traditional approaches.

Introduction to Data Governance

Data Governance is a set of formal processes that ensure that data within the enterprise meets the following expectations:

  • It is acquired from reliable sources
  • It meets predefined quality standards
  • It is fit for use for further processing
  • It conforms to well-defined business rules
  • It is defined and modified by the right person.
  • It follows a well-documented change control process
  • It is aligned to the organizational strategy
  • Its trustworthiness remains intact while data flows through various transformation cycles

As we can see from the preceding definition, Data Governance can be simply thought of as a discipline that an organization enforces on data as it flows from ingest to exhaust, making sure that it is not tampered in any way that is risky.

Data Governance is a key driver...

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