Big Data: Technologies and Software Products

Abstract

The main tendency in technology leans towards huge amounts of data to be stored, analyzed and processed, in order to obtain valuable information on various topics. Regardless the domain of interest, storing data is always a must and it must be done in an efficient, secure and accessible way. Then, it can be used for statistics, studies or as training sets in the field of machine learning. The aim of this paper is to give a brief overview of the concept known as big data, as well as to present and compare the main technologies and software products used to store and manipulate this type of data.

Keywords

• big data
• hadoop
• nosql
• traditional database