Microsoft today announced Azure Data Lake, a new data repository for big data analytics workloads, during its Build developer conference keynote. The idea behind Data Lake is — as the name implies — ...

The “data” part of the terms “data lake,” “data warehouse,” and “database” is easy enough to understand. Data are everywhere, and the bits need to be kept somewhere. But should they be stored in a ...

A large storage repository that holds data in their original format prior to being parsed and analyzed. The term is often associated with Hadoop, which was designed to hold huge amounts of data; for ...