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DATA MESH: FOUR PRINCIPLES
Distribute responsibility for data pipelines and data quality to people with domain knowledge.
Serve data as-a-product using a common self-service IT infrastructure platform to ensure consistency.
Domain-Centric
Ownership &
Architecture
Data as-a-Product
Self-Serve Data
Platform
Federated
Governance
● Data products reflect use
cases, and are easily
discoverable
● Data products are
well-documented, easy to
obtain and use
● Data products define
quality requirements
● Domains are accountable
to “customers”
● Domain-agnostic,
common tool set
● Easy to use and low
maintenance to support
● Easy to deploy
repeatable patterns for
common requirements:
cleansing, transformation,
automation, storage,
security, governance,
sharing
● Data governance is
coordinated global to
ensure interoperability
across domains
● Access and use policies
are coordinated
● Governance is applied
within domains
● Data pipelines owned by
teams with domain
knowledge
● Domains own cleansing,
refinement, historization,
pre-aggregation, etc.
● Domains responsible for
data governance
● Domains deliver data
products to “customers”