The storage and processing requirements for big data have become increasingly diverse. Enterprises looking to create a big-data ecology must make careful considerations about how to build unified data-lake storage and perform data analysis on it. Apache Iceberg has become a popular data-lake solution, and at the same time, the role of storage in data lakes has become more important. Dell Technologies provides a complete set of catalog implementations based on Dell ECS. This document compares ECS with HDFS and explains how to use ECS to build data lakes.
