Depending on the kind of data source that it is needed, you may need to use different applications. For example, if the data is stored in a relational database, it can be exported to the Big Data storage by means of Apache Sqoop. Collector also considers the data that must be analyzed in real-time, for instance, in a scenario where a log file requires to be processed and we need to store its changes. All this data will be stored in the data lake.