Data Fabric and Data Mesh’s friendship
Data Fabric focuses on Self-Service data access via active metadata leveraging a composable set of tools and technologies. It offers the ability to discover, understand, and access data across hybrid and multi-cloud data landscapes with automation and Data Governance. It is primarily process and technology centric with flexibility in supporting diverse organizational models. On the other hand, Data Mesh is organizationally and process driven. It requires a technical implementation approach to execute its design. Data Mesh is at a higher level and Data Fabric is at a lower level. Data Fabric is capable of fulfilling Data Mesh’s key principles.
Figure 3.2 provides a conceptual view where both the Data Fabric and Data Mesh designs are applied together in a Self-Service data platform.
Figure 3.2 – Data Fabric with a Data Mesh Self-Service data platform
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