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Data ingestion

Data ingestion is the process of bringing data from sources into a storage or analytics system.

Written by Reflective Data experts · updated Oct 5, 2026

Ingestion can be batch or streaming and covers extraction, basic validation and loading. It is the first step of a data pipeline and the one most exposed to source changes.

Reliable ingestion means retries, monitoring and clear handling of late or duplicate data.

Batch vs streaming Change data capture (CDC)Data pipeline

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Data product

A data product is a dataset or model packaged for reuse, with an owner, documentation, quality…

schema.md

Schema

A schema defines the structure of data: the tables, columns and data types it contains.

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Data quality

Data quality describes how accurate, complete, consistent and timely your data is.

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Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is AWS data warehouse service for large-scale analytics.

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Data lineage

Data lineage shows where data comes from and how it is transformed on its way to…

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Airbyte

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform with a large catalogue of connectors.

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