How It Works
Batch ingestion
Bringing data into a system in scheduled chunks — for example, loading yesterday's sales every night at 2 a.m. Simpler and cheaper than streaming, but the data is always somewhat out of date.
Origin · no single documented coiner
Descends from batch processing on early mainframes (1950s–60s), where jobs were queued and run in groups. 'Ingestion' as a data-pipeline word is later industry jargon with no single source.
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