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Data Lake for Enterprises

You're reading from  Data Lake for Enterprises

Product type Book
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281349
Pages 596 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Vivek Mishra Vivek Mishra
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Tomcy John Tomcy John
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Pankaj Misra Pankaj Misra
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Part 1 - Overview
Part 2 - Technical Building blocks of Data Lake
Part 3 - Bringing It All Together
Introduction to Data Comprehensive Concepts of a Data Lake Lambda Architecture as a Pattern for Data Lake Applied Lambda for Data Lake Data Acquisition of Batch Data using Apache Sqoop Data Acquisition of Stream Data using Apache Flume Messaging Layer using Apache Kafka Data Processing using Apache Flink Data Store Using Apache Hadoop Indexed Data Store using Elasticsearch Data Lake Components Working Together Data Lake Use Case Suggestions

Context in data lake - data acquisition


The process of inducting data from various source systems is called data acquisition. In our data lake, we have a layer defined (in fact, the first one) which has only this responsibility to take care of.

One of the main technologies that we see doing the main job of inducting data into our data lake is using Apache Sqoop. The following sections of this chapter aim at covering Sqoop in detail so that you get a clear picture of this technology as well as get to know the data acquisition layer in detail.

Data acquisition layer

In Chapter 2, Comprehensive Concepts of a Data Lake you got a glimpse of the data acquisition layer. This layer’s responsibility is to gather information from various source systems and induct it into the data lake. This figure will refresh your memory and give you a good pictorial view of this layer:

Figure 01: Data lake - data acquisition layer

The acquisition layer should be able to handle the following:

  • Bulk data: Bulk data in the...
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