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Vivek Mishra
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Vivek Mishra

Vivek Mishra is an IT professional with more than nine years of experience in various technologies like Java, J2ee, Hibernate, SCA4J, Mule, Spring, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, REDIS, Hive, Hadoop. He has been a contributor for open source like Apache Cassandra and lead committer for Kundera(JPA 2.0 compliant Object-Datastore Mapping Library for NoSQL Datastores like Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB and REDIS). Mr Mishra in his previous experience has enjoyed long lasting partnership with most recognizable names in SCM, Banking and finance industries, employing industry standard full software life cycle methodologies Agile and SCRUM. He is currently employed with Impetus infotech pvt. ltd. He has undertaken speaking engagements in cloud camp and Nasscom Big data seminar and is an active blogger and can be followed at mevivs.wordpress.com
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Tomcy John lives in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), hailing from Kerala (India), and is an enterprise Java specialist with a degree in Engineering (B Tech) and over 14 years of experience in several industries. He's currently working as principal architect at Emirates Group IT, in their core architecture team. Prior to this, he worked with Oracle Corporation and Ernst & Young. His main specialization is in building enterprise-grade applications and he acts as chief mentor and evangelist to facilitate incorporating new technologies as corporate standards in the organization. Outside of his work, Tomcy works very closely with young developers and engineers as mentors and speaks at various forums as a technical evangelist on many topics ranging from web and middleware all the way to various persistence stores.
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Pankaj Misra
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Pankaj Misra

Pankaj Misra has been a technology evangelist, holding a bachelor's degree in engineering, with over 16 years of experience across multiple business domains and technologies. He has been working with Emirates Group IT since 2015, and has worked with various other organizations in the past. He specializes in architecting and building multi-stack solutions and implementations. He has also been a speaker at technology forums in India and has built products with scale-out architecture that support high-volume, near-real-time data processing and near-real-time analytics.
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Knowing more about data storage


Storage is one of the most critical parts of a Data Lake. Apache Hadoop (HDFS) is the core of data storage for our Data Lake. The following figure sums up this aspect quite clearly, showing batch and stream data storage components in our Data Lake, along with other technologies within Hadoop Ecosystem with regards to various aspects dealing with the storage:

Figure 02: Apache Hadoop (HDFS) as data storage

We will now understand some important concepts in data storage area. We will also concentrate explicitly on batch and speed data and how these gets stored in the Data Lake and also see some specific details in regards to these data types.

Zones in Data Storage

Even though the data in the storage need not follow a certain pattern, but for an organization while going with a Data Lake, it's good to have some clear directions and principles on how the data need to be put in the Data Lake. These are just some of our recommendations that could be considered or kept...

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Vivek Mishra

Vivek Mishra is an IT professional with more than nine years of experience in various technologies like Java, J2ee, Hibernate, SCA4J, Mule, Spring, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, REDIS, Hive, Hadoop. He has been a contributor for open source like Apache Cassandra and lead committer for Kundera(JPA 2.0 compliant Object-Datastore Mapping Library for NoSQL Datastores like Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB and REDIS). Mr Mishra in his previous experience has enjoyed long lasting partnership with most recognizable names in SCM, Banking and finance industries, employing industry standard full software life cycle methodologies Agile and SCRUM. He is currently employed with Impetus infotech pvt. ltd. He has undertaken speaking engagements in cloud camp and Nasscom Big data seminar and is an active blogger and can be followed at mevivs.wordpress.com
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Tomcy John

Tomcy John lives in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), hailing from Kerala (India), and is an enterprise Java specialist with a degree in Engineering (B Tech) and over 14 years of experience in several industries. He's currently working as principal architect at Emirates Group IT, in their core architecture team. Prior to this, he worked with Oracle Corporation and Ernst & Young. His main specialization is in building enterprise-grade applications and he acts as chief mentor and evangelist to facilitate incorporating new technologies as corporate standards in the organization. Outside of his work, Tomcy works very closely with young developers and engineers as mentors and speaks at various forums as a technical evangelist on many topics ranging from web and middleware all the way to various persistence stores.
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Pankaj Misra

Pankaj Misra has been a technology evangelist, holding a bachelor's degree in engineering, with over 16 years of experience across multiple business domains and technologies. He has been working with Emirates Group IT since 2015, and has worked with various other organizations in the past. He specializes in architecting and building multi-stack solutions and implementations. He has also been a speaker at technology forums in India and has built products with scale-out architecture that support high-volume, near-real-time data processing and near-real-time analytics.
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