Where Does Your Data Live? Decoding the Modern Data Ecosystem
Cliffe Okoth
If you are stepping into the world of data engineering or analytics, you have likely been hit with a wave of storage buzzwords like data lake and data warehouse . In this article, we will demystify these terms so you can understand exactly where your data belongs. Database Imagine you just launched a business. You need a system to record daily operations every time a customer buys a product, updates their password or submits a support ticket. This is the job of a standard Database . A database i