Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Mart, and Delta Lake


🏦 Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Mart, and Delta Lake
Explained through a story you won't forget — using banking data 💳

👨‍💼 Meet Arjun. He works at a bank and wants to understand customer behavior to improve services.

So, he starts collecting everything the bank has:

  • ATM withdrawal logs

  • Mobile app clickstream events

  • Loan application forms

  • Voice call recordings with customer care

  • Account transaction history

  • PDFs, emails, scanned documents

He stores it all in one central location without worrying about format or structure.

👉 This is a Data Lake – a huge storage system where raw data of all types (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) is dumped for future use.

Now, Arjun’s analytics team needs clean, trusted data to build dashboards and generate reports.

So, he processes the raw data:
He filters out errors, standardizes formats, fills missing values, and organizes it into structured formats (like SQL tables or clean Parquet files) — optimized for querying and analysis.

👉 This becomes the Data Warehouse – a curated, structured, and reliable system designed for analytical tasks like BI reports, forecasting, and KPIs.

But the Loan Department only needs a focused view — just loan-related customer data:
credit scores, repayment history, interest rates, and active loans.

So, Arjun creates a smaller dataset from the Data Warehouse that’s tailored specifically for that team.

👉 That’s the Data Mart – a department-specific, simplified subset of the warehouse that contains only the data relevant to a business unit.

Over time, customer data keeps changing — new transactions, updated KYC, revised credit limits.

Arjun needs a system that allows:

  • Real-time data updates

  • Change tracking

  • Historical versioning

  • Rollbacks in case of errors

He adds a smart layer on top of the data lake that brings structure, reliability, and ACID guarantees.

👉 That’s the Delta Lake – an enhanced version of a Data Lake that allows real-time updates, version control, and analytics on raw data with transactional integrity.

✅ In a nutshell:

  • Data Lake → dump everything, raw and unstructured

  • Data Warehouse → clean, structured, ready for analysis

  • Data Mart → simplified slice of data for specific teams

  • Delta Lake → smarter lake with updates, versioning & reliability


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