{"id":5222,"date":"2026-02-25T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/insights\/what-is-a-medallion-architecture"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:42:04","slug":"what-is-a-medallion-architecture","status":"publish","type":"knowledge_pt","link":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/insights\/what-is-a-medallion-architecture","title":{"rendered":"What is a medallion Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Medaillion Architecture is used to store data in a <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/simplified\/data-lakehouse\">data lakehouse <\/a><\/u>structure through three layers: bronze, silver and gold. The goal is to gradually raise the data structure &#038; data quality as the data moves from the bronze layer to the gold layer: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bronze: raw &#038; unprocessed data taken from the source.<\/li>\n<li>Silver: data has been checked for quality &#038; reliability and converted into a naming convention recognizable to the organization.<\/li>\n<li>Gold: data is optimized to be used in reports (facts &#038; dimensions)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the advantages of this architecture is that i.c.w. a data lakehouse solution, both Data Scientists and Data Analysts can use the processed data.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7526aa_ef0669adbf754986aaad0adeacbf180emv2.jpeg\" alt=\"Overview of advantages Data Lakehouse i.c.w. a Medaillion architecture\"\/><figcaption>Overview of advantages Data Lakehouse i.c.m. a Medaillion architecture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A good comprehensive description in English of the Medailliion architecture can be found on a blog by <u><a href=\"https:\/\/piethein.medium.com\/medallion-architecture-best-practices-for-managing-bronze-silver-and-gold-486de7c90055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piethein Strengholt.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Medaillion Architecture is used to structure data in a data lakehouse through 3 layers: bronze, silver and gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","knowledge_type":[58],"knowledge_category":[],"class_list":["post-5222","knowledge_pt","type-knowledge_pt","status-publish","hentry","knowledge_type-simplified"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_pt\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledge_pt"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledge_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_type?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_category?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}