Interesting things about big data #2 2016/09/04

1. Basics about big data

1.1 Characteristics of big data:

• volume (terabytes - zettabytes -> really a lot)
• variety (structured, polystructured, unstructured)
• velocity (batch, streaming data)

2. Applications

• Data-intensive applications, challenges, techniques and technologies: A survey on Big Data
  by C.L. Philip Chen, Chun-Yang Zhang
  http://www.crisismanagement.com.cn/templates/blue/down_list/llzt_dsj/Data-intensive%20applications,%20challenges,%20techniques%20and%20technologies%20A%20survey%20on%20Big%20Data.pdf

3. Products/Tools

• NoSQL (Accumulo, Aerospike, Alchemy Database, AllegroGraph, Apache CouchDB, ArrangoDB, Berkeley DB, Cassandra, Clusterpoint, CortexDB, Couchbase, DocumentDB, Druid, Dynamo, FairCom c-treeACE, FoundationDB, Giraph, HBase, HyperDex, InfiniteGraph, Lotus Notes, MarkLogic, MemcacheDB, MongoDB, MUMPS, Neo4J, Oracle NOSQL Database, OrientDB, Qizx, Redis, RethinkDB, Riak, Stardog, Vertica, Virtuoso)
• MapReduce (Apache Hadoop MapReduce, disco, DryadLINQ, MATLAB MapReduce, QtConcurrent, Skynet, Splunk, Stratosphere)
• Storage (S3, Hadoop Distributed File System)
• Servers (EC2, Elastic, Google App Engine)
• Processing (BigSheets, ElasticSearch, R, Splunk, Solr/Lucene, Yahoo! Pipes)

4. Useful links

• In general Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org
• Open source: http://hadoop.apache.org
• Commercial products IBM: https://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/
• Commercial products Splunk: http://www.splunk.com
• Implementation for BTC blockchain based on Splunk: https://m.imgur.com/a/xA8Sl

Do you have some interesting articles regarding big data? Please reply :)

Thanx Andreas