06 April 2017

Data Management: Data Mesh (Definitions)

"Data Mesh is a sociotechnical approach to share, access and manage analytical data in complex and large-scale environments - within or across organizations." (Zhamak Dehghani, "Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale", 2021)

"A data mesh is an architectural concept in data engineering that gives business domains (divisions/departments) within a large organization ownership of the data they produce. The centralized data management team then becomes the organization’s data governance team." (Margaret Rouse, 2023) [source]

"Data Mesh is a design concept based on federated data and business domains. It applies product management thinking to data management with the outcome being Data Products. It’s technology agnostic and calls for a domain-centric organization with federated Data Governance." (Sonia Mezzetta, "Principles of Data Fabric", 2023)

"A data mesh is a decentralized data architecture with four specific characteristics. First, it requires independent teams within designated domains to own their analytical data. Second, in a data mesh, data is treated and served as a product to help the data consumer to discover, trust, and utilize it for whatever purpose they like. Third, it relies on automated infrastructure provisioning. And fourth, it uses governance to ensure that all the independent data products are secure and follow global rules."(James Serra, "Deciphering Data Architectures", 2024)

"A data mesh is a federated data architecture that emphasizes decentralizing data across business functions or domains such as marketing, sales, human resources, and more. It facilitates organizing and managing data in a logical way to facilitate the more targeted and efficient use and governance of the data across organizations." (Arshad Ali & Bradley Schacht, "Learn Microsoft Fabric", 2024)

"To explain a data mesh in one sentence, a data mesh is a centrally managed network of decentralized data products. The data mesh breaks the central data lake into decentralized islands of data that are owned by the teams that generate the data. The data mesh architecture proposes that data be treated like a product, with each team producing its own data/output using its own choice of tools arranged in an architecture that works for them. This team completely owns the data/output they produce and exposes it for others to consume in a way they deem fit for their data." (Aniruddha Deswandikar,"Engineering Data Mesh in Azure Cloud", 2024)

"A data mesh is a decentralized data architecture that organizes data by a specific business domain - for example, marketing, sales, customer service and more - to provide more ownership to the producers of a given data set." (IBM) [source]

"A data mesh is a new approach to designing data architectures. It takes a decentralized approach to data storage and management, having individual business domains retain ownership over their datasets rather than flowing all of an organization’s data into a centrally owned data lake." (Alteryx) [source]

"A Data Mesh is a solution architecture for the specific goal of building business-focused data products without preference or specification of the technology involved." (Gartner)

"A data mesh is an architectural framework that solves advanced data security challenges through distributed, decentralized ownership." (AWS) [source]

"Data mesh defines a platform architecture based on a decentralized network. The data mesh distributes data ownership and allows domain-specific teams to manage data independently." (TIBCO) [source]

"Data mesh refers to a data architecture where data is owned and managed by the teams that use it. A data mesh decentralizes data ownership to business domains–such as finance, marketing, and sales–and provides them a self-serve data platform and federated computational governance." (Qlik) [source]

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