Big Data Analytics: A Preliminary Study of Open Source Platforms

摘要

Nowadays organizations look for Big Data as an opportunity to manage and explore their data with the objective to support decisions within its different operational areas. Therefore, it is necessary to analyse several concepts about Big Data Analytics, including definitions, features, advantages and disadvantages. By investigating today's big data platforms, current industrial practices and related trends in the research world, it is possible to understand the impact of Big Data Analytics on smaller organizations. This paper analyses the following five open source platforms for Big Data Analytics: Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, Spark, Hortonworks, and HPCC.