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What is a data lake?

In short

A data lake is a large central repository that stores vast amounts of data in its raw, original form, whether structured tables, documents, images, or logs. Unlike a traditional database, it does not require the data to be neatly organized upfront, so you can keep everything and decide how to use it later. Data lakes are commonly used to feed analytics and machine learning across an organization.

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