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- What is data catalog in data lake?
- What is metadata in data lake?
- Is data Catalog same as metadata?
- What should be in a data catalog?
What is data catalog in data lake?
The Data Catalog provides an interface to query all assets stored in data lake S3 buckets. The Data Catalog is designed to provide a single source of truth about the contents of the data lake.
What is metadata in data lake?
Metadata, or information about data, gives you the ability to understand lineage, quality, and lifecycle, and provides crucial visibility into today's data-rich environments.
Is data Catalog same as metadata?
Metadata is the core of a data catalog. Every catalog collects data about the data inventory and also about processes, people, and platforms related to data. Metadata tools of the past collected business, process, and technical metadata, and data catalogs continue that practice.
What should be in a data catalog?
A Data Catalog is a collection of metadata, combined with data management and search tools, that helps analysts and other data users to find the data that they need, serves as an inventory of available data, and provides information to evaluate fitness of data for intended uses.
