Alan Simon is the managing principal of Thinking Helmet, Inc., the author of 32 books on business technology, and a consultant who's worked with enterprise and government organizations. His professional focus is business intelligence, analytics, and data warehousing. He also teaches university courses in his specialty areas.

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting Started with Data Lakes 5

Chapter 1: Jumping into the Data Lake 7

Chapter 2: Planning Your Day (and the Next Decade) at the Data Lake 25

Chapter 3: Break Out the Life Vests: Tackling Data Lake Challenges 49

Part 2: Building the Docks, Avoiding the Rocks 65

Chapter 4: Imprinting Your Data Lake on a Reference Architecture 67

Chapter 5: Anybody Hungry? Ingesting and Storing Raw Data in Your Bronze Zone 97

Chapter 6: Your Data Lake's Water Treatment Plant: The Silver Zone 121

Chapter 7: Bottling Your Data Lake Water in the Gold Zone 139

Chapter 8: Playing in the Sandbox 151

Chapter 9: Fishing in the Data Lake 159

Chapter 10: Rowing End-to-End across the Data Lake 169

Part 3: Evaporating the Data Lake into the Cloud 187

Chapter 11: A Cloudy Day at the Data Lake 189

Chapter 12: Building Data Lakes in Amazon Web Services 199

Chapter 13: Building Data Lakes in Microsoft Azure 217

Part 4: Cleaning Up the Polluted Data Lake 243

Chapter 14: Figuring Out If You Have a Data Swamp Instead of a Data Lake 245

Chapter 15: Defining Your Data Lake Remediation Strategy 259

Chapter 16: Refilling Your Data Lake 283

Part 5: Making Trips to the Data Lake a Tradition 297

Chapter 17: Checking Your GPS: The Data Lake Road Map 299

Chapter 18: Booking Future Trips to the Data Lake 325

Part 6: The Part of Tens 333

Chapter 19: Top Ten Reasons to Invest in Building a Data Lake 335

Chapter 20: Ten Places to Get Help for Your Data Lake 341

Chapter 21: Ten Differences between a Data Warehouse and a Data Lake 345

Index 351