Comparing data fabrics, data meshes and knowledge graphs - DataScienceCentral.com

Vendors, consultants, and their clients have been talking in data fabric terms for close to a decade now, if not longer. If "big data" was the problem to solve, then a data fabric suggested a ready solution. John Mashey, then chief scientist at Silicon Graphics, used the term "big data" to describe the wave of large, less structured datasets and its impact on infrastructure in a slide deck in 1998. Apache Hadoop gained popularity after an engineer at the New York Times wrote a blog post in 2009 about automating a PDF integration task using Hadoop. The term "data lake" came into vogue in the early 2010s to describe an informal means of making data of various kinds accessible to analyst teams.