Metadata Management for Data Lakes

Overview & Synopsis

To prevent data lakes from being invisible and inaccessible to users, an efficient metadata management system is necessary. In this paper, we propose a such system based on a generic and extensible classification of metadata. A metadata conceptual schema which considers different types (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) of raw or processed data is presented. This schema is implemented in two DBMSs (relational and graph) to validate our proposal.