Understanding metadata and data lakes | Starburst Academy

What is metadata and what role does it play in data lakes? This video unpacks the topic and outlines some of the key ways that metadata is used to help make sense of the structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in a lake. The handling of metadata plays a key role in differentiating data lakes and data lakehouses from data warehouses. The combination of data in multiple structures stored in inexpensive cloud object storage alongside highly-structured metadata is a powerful reason that the data lake sits at the center of the modern and open data stack. This openness is accomplished through metadata, and this tutorial lets you understand these big data concepts more fully.

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