Unified Data Warehouse

Data lakes and data warehouses offer organizations centralized data delivery platforms. The recent Building the Unified Data Warehouse and Data Lake report by leading industry analysts TDWI we discovered 64% of organizations stated the objective for a unified Data Warehouse and Data Lakes is to get more business value and that 84% of organizations polled felt that a unified approach to Data Warehouses and Data Lakes was either extremely or moderately important. In the recent report Logical Data Fabric to the Rescue Integrating Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Data Hubs by Rick van der Lans,...

For years, TDWI research has tracked the modernization and evolution of data warehouse architectures, as well as the emergence of the data lake design pattern for organizing massive volumes of analytics data. The two have recently converged to form a new and richer data architecture. The architecture is fairly new, and not many organizations have embraced it yet, although the majority of respondents to our recent TDWI Best Practices Report survey see it as an opportunity because it provides more options for managing an increasingly diverse range of data structures, end user types, and...