Cloud-based data lakes are ideal for exploratory and experimental data analysis, querying data on an ad-hoc basis. Along with that, it provides easy access to wide-ranging and massive-scale data. There is no setup time when data lakes have built-in indexes. In a data lake, you can retain any amount of data that has a great economical benefit. The other reason for it is the public cloud storage costs are so low. Now the what is a data lake, and what are its benefits? Read more..