data mesh
DAY-tah MESH
ˈdeɪtə mɛʃListen
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Dictionary meaning
a decentralized sociotechnical approach to data architecture in which ownership of data is distributed to the domain teams that produce and understand it best, rather than centralized in a single data platform team; coined by Zhamak Dehghani (ThoughtWorks) in 2019; built on four principles: domain-oriented ownership, data as a product, self-serve data infrastructure, and federated computational governance; contrasted with monolithic data lake or data warehouse architectures
Examples
- Data mesh allowed each product team to own, publish, and maintain their data as a product for others to consume.
- The data mesh architecture reduced the central data team's bottleneck from weeks to hours.
Synonyms: distributed data architecture, domain-oriented data architecture
Pronunciation tips
Not to be confused with 'service mesh' (a networking pattern for microservices). The 'mesh' metaphor implies a distributed, interconnected network of data producers, not a central hub.
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