As per the below architecture diagram, Pivotal HD is the leading standards-based Hadoop distribution delivering the foundation for a Business Data Lake architecture. Pivotal HD provides out-of-the-box integration with Pivotal HDB/HAWQ, an MPP-based native analytic SQL engine that provides analytical processing of structured data in Hadoop. United Data Management Tier has features like open-source Apache Hadoop with Enterprise support, robust cluster management with Pivotal Ambari, and Unified Data Interactions for Application Development with Spring and Spring XD. A data scientist can use EdrawMax or EdrawMax Online to create a Pivotal HD Enterprise diagram for their usage as the free architecture maker has tons of predefined templates to offer.
