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What's the difference between a data lake and a database with a filesystem?


I thought data lake was more of an advertising phrase, to show off how much data you have/can handle


Web scale


Add data warehouse to this list too.


Normalisation, relations, the filesystem, ..? I'm more curious about your view of a 'data lake' which is met by adding a filesystem to a db?


Normalisation, relations,

What does that mean?




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