!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is a method of storing [data] within a system that facilitates the collocation of [data] in variant [schematas|Schema] and [structural|Structured data] forms, usually [object] blobs or [file System]. 


[{$pagename}] has no definitive meaning and is a [Buzzword]


The concept of [{$pagename}] is to have a single [data Store|DataStore] of all [data] in the [organizational Entity] ranging from raw [data] (which implies exact copy of source [Data Store|DataStore]) to transformed [data] which is used for various tasks including reporting, visualization, [Data Security Analytics] and [Machine Learning]. 

[{$pagename}] includes [structured data] from relational [databases] (rows and columns), semi-structured data ([CSV], logs, [XML], [JSON]), [unstructured data] (emails, documents, PDFs) and even binary [data] (images, audio, video) thus creating a centralized [data Store|DataStore] accommodating all forms of [data].

[{$pagename}] offers unified [Object storage] where the individual objects [schema] is not part of the [{$pagename}] 

[{$pagename}] is an [organizational Entity] [resource]

One [example] of a [{$pagename}] is the [Hadoop Distributed File System] used within [Apache Hadoop]

Generally a [{$pagename}] has less structure than a [Data warehouse] but there is not "formally" defined difference.

[Apache Hadoop], [Azure] Storage, [Google Cloud Storage] and the [AWS Simple Storage Service] ([S3]) platform can be used to build [{$pagename}] repositories.

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* [#1] - [Data_lake|Wikipedia:Data_lake|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2016-08-29-