From the course: Complete Guide to Data Lakes and Lakehouses

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APIs and services for data consumption

APIs and services for data consumption

From the course: Complete Guide to Data Lakes and Lakehouses

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APIs and services for data consumption

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- [Instructor] Now let's talk about another way to access data from lakes and lake houses, data APIs. Data APIs make it easy for applications to connect to data in lakes and lake houses, making data access smoother and operations more efficient. Almost every data platform offers an API to help you access, manipulate, and manage data. Data APIs are software intermediaries that allow applications to interact with data sources through a set of defined protocols and tools. APIs offer ways to directly interact with the storage layer of lakes and lake houses, allowing for operations such as data ingestion, retrieval, and deletion. APIs also enable performing complex queries and analytics directly on the data stored in lakes and lake houses, often exposing SQL-like interfaces. They even enable building, training, and deploying machine learning models directly on the data within the lake houses. And lastly, they enable the integration of movement of data between different systems. RESTful…

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