What are Data Clean Rooms?

How they can supplement Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Christianlauer
CodeX

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While much has evolved in recent years from Data Warehouse to the Data Lake and Data Lakehouse, another term is now emerging: Data Clean Room, but what is this exactly?

While Data Lakes are used to store raw data, and Data Warehouses contain regulated, aggregated and transfomed data, which together are often built up into a Data Lakehouse, the Data Clean Room is rather to be seen at the end of the process, i.e. build on the Data Warehouse. An article that differentiates and explains the other technologies can be found below.

In recent years, data privacy has become an increasingly important issue for both businesses and consumers. Organizations collect and process large amounts of personal and other valuable data and need to ensure that they handle that data securely and in compliance with privacy laws. One approach that has gained popularity is the use of Data Clean Rooms. A Data Clean Room is a secure environment where sensitive data can be analyzed and shared without compromising individual…

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