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Data Lake
A data lake is a centralised repository used to store a firms structured and unstructured data at any scale. A business can store its data as-is, without having to first structure the data, and run different types of analytics—from dashboards and visualizations to big data processing, real-time analytics, and machine learning to guide better decisions.