Smart City Dispatch · Glossary
Data lake
A storage architecture designed to hold large volumes of raw or lightly processed data in many formats, typically on scalable object storage.
Data lake
A storage architecture designed to hold large volumes of raw or lightly processed data in many formats, typically on scalable object storage.
Smart-city relevance: Useful for heterogeneous sensor, log, geospatial, video-derived, and historical datasets, but requires governance to avoid becoming a “data swamp.”
Related: Object storage