Data mesh is a decentralized sociotechnical approach to share, access, and manage analytical data in complex and large-scale environments - within or across organizations.¹

Principles

1. Domain ownership
2. Data as a Product
3. Self-serve data platform
4. Federated computational governance

Data

Data Mesh distinguishes two types of data:

• Operational data (OLTP) - supports business and keeps the current state of the business with transactional integrity;
• Analytical data (OLAP) - historical, integrated, and aggregate view of data created as the byproduct of running a business.

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1. Dehghani, Zhamak (2022) Data Mesh. Delivering data-driven value at scale. O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-492-09239-1. ↩︎