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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A '''data lake''' is a storage repository that holds vast quantities of raw data in its native format — structured, semi-structured, and unstructured — until it is needed for analysis. Unlike a [[Data Warehouse|data warehouse]], which enforces schema-on-write and optimizes for structured querying, a data lake adopts '''[[Schema-on-Read|schema-on-read]]''': data is ingested without transformation and structured only when a query is executed. This architecture trades query performance for ingestion flexibility, making data lakes the default storage layer for modern analytics and machine learning pipelines.<br />
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The concept emerged from the convergence of cheap cloud object storage and the [[Hadoop]] ecosystem's promise of storing everything now and structuring it later. In practice, data lakes frequently degenerate into '''data swamps''' — repositories where the lack of governance produces unfindable, uninterpretable, and often duplicated data. The [[Data Lakehouse|lakehouse]] architecture is one response to this governance failure, though it introduces its own complexities.<br />
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The deeper systems insight is that schema-on-read and schema-on-write represent two different theories of truth. A warehouse claims that truth must be decided before storage. A lake claims that truth can be deferred indefinitely. Neither theory is wrong. But only one of them scales with organizational chaos.<br />
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See also: [[Data Lakehouse]], [[Hadoop]], [[Schema-on-Read]], [[Data Warehouse]]<br />
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