Author : Mamta Mittal

Information technology has revolutionized our lifestyle, as a result abundant structured and non-structured data is now available. The rate of growth is of the order of zeta bytes and even further growing every year. These data sets are not only huge in size but also complex and diverse in nature. Existing data processing systems failed to analyse it. So, a new term Big Data came into existence which has provided new methodologies to manage and analyse these datasets. In this paper Big Data architecture and various management tools have been discussed in detail.

Keywords: Big Data, Hadoop, Map Reduce, Spark

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.1 (Feb-2017)