Can the data fabric automate the creation of data products?
By: Daniel Abadi
August 16, 2022
Enterprises have long been faced with a vicious tradeoff: maintain central control over how data is made available across (and sometimes even within) units, or…
Data Fabric vs. Data Mesh: What’s the Difference?
By: Daniel Abadi
November 18, 2021
I am increasingly getting asked about the difference between the Data Fabric and the Data Mesh. They are both emerging paradigms designed to solve a…
Does the Data Mesh Make Data Integration Harder?
By: Daniel Abadi
September 17, 2021
Every five years, a small group of leaders in the data management research community get together to do a self assessment --- what are we…
Data Federation and Data Virtualization Never Worked in the Past But Now it’s Different
By: Daniel Abadi
July 13, 2021
Thirty years ago it was already commonplace for large businesses to have hundreds --- even thousands of different database instances managing data from the variety…
Data Mesh: The Answer to the Data Warehouse Hypocrisy
By: Daniel Abadi
March 25, 2021
Note: I start this piece with some technical background that has nothing to do with the data mesh, and is only relevant to data warehousing…