> So basically, a data lake is a fancy word for a file system? Well, when you get down to it, any database is a just a file system with an API :) I think a "d

> So basically, a data lake is a fancy word for a file system? Well, when you get down to it, any database is a just a file system with an API :) I think a "data lake" might be a combination of raw files with metadata. For example, raw scrapes on S3 + an entry on Postgres with a link to the file, the date it was scraped and the version of the bot that scraped it.