The Enterprise Big Data Lake: Delivering the Promise of Big Data and Data Science

This is a great read for anyone either planning on building a data lake for the first time or struggling to derive value from a data lake that’s already been implemented. The author provides an overview of the benefits of a data lake (in addition to relevant terminology) but then wastes no time discussing all that must go into the planning, implementation and management phases to ensure your data lake is a success. He spends a great deal of time talking about self-service business intelligence, which is the Holy Grail for any enterprise that wants to more effectively compete as a data-driven organization. Alex is truly a data visionary, and the book clearly benefits from his impressive background. But what I really liked was that he also tapped other industry experts (with their own impressive backgrounds) to offer up their various views and experience. What the reader walks away with is a compendium of best practices that will take your understanding of data lakes to the next level.

Bravo! This book was an excellent read. The author has a very simple and easy to understand style, which means this book can be read by just about anyone at any level. In addition to introducing the reader to data warehousing, big data and data science, the book provides all the various options enterprises can choose from to build the data lake that’s right for their business. Most laudable: no matter how deep Gorelik dives into this highly technical world, he always maps it back to the ultimate goal—to render data usable to just about any user regardless of their technical acumen. This is what the democratization of data in the enterprise is all about, and I commend Mr. Gorelik for not losing sight of this.

At work, I needed some guidance on how to "design" data lakes and approach them as projects where business, people and security are involved - and not only talking about technical frameworks. This book does just that. It puts the many technical bricks and otherwise organizational and managerial challenges in context, all while tying it all to real-world implementation examples. For my consulting gigs, where I do have to offer solutions dor data lake governance, the information in this book proved to be so useful !

The author does an excellent job in explaining approaches to big data. I am new to this field and this book was very helpful. It is clear, concise and easy to understand by someone like me who is unfamiliar and new to the field. Very good book.

This book does a very good job of outlining thoughts and approaches to big data. As someone unfamiliar with this area of technology, the book was extremely useful. It gave me a window into the space and an overall understanding of how to conceptualize and ultimately control big data within an organization. And, it wasn't too long or chewy!

This book will help you understand how to be successful in the Big Data/AI-Driven age. Many specific hints regarding organizing and prepping data across the Enterprise. Easy to read and deep at the same time.

OK, read not enough detail. Somewhat rudimentary it felt like they cover the data warehouse world as intro, but don't deliver on data lakes very much content.

Very helpful as a big data practitioner.

Recommend for anyone who wants to discover how to build a data lake and how to do efficient governance over data lake.

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I have a background in Data Warehousing, data modelling and I wanted to deep dive into data lakes. But honestly, as a person who expects technical knowledge I was frustrated. This book is clearly overpriced. It doesn't deserve the price on it. Could have been easily 50 pages of book if author would've removed essays, articles referred from other resources as well as removing repetition. If you are technical person who wants to deep dive I don't recommend. Even for high level information you could get better knowledge from the internet for less expensive price. If you are a manager you probably would gain some high-level knowledge, but again price of the book doesn't deserve it.