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Storage Solutions for Big Data Systems: A Qualitative Study and Comparison
Big data systems development is full of challenges in view of the variety of
application areas and domains that this technology promises to serve.
Typically, fundamental design decisions involved in big data systems design
include choosing appropriate storage and computing infrastructures. In this age
of heterogeneous systems that integrate different technologies for optimized
solution to a specific real world problem, big data system are not an exception
to any such rule. As far as the storage aspect of any big data system is
concerned, the primary facet in this regard is a storage infrastructure and
NoSQL seems to be the right technology that fulfills its requirements. However,
every big data application has variable data characteristics and thus, the
corresponding data fits into a different data model. This paper presents
feature and use case analysis and comparison of the four main data models
namely document oriented, key value, graph and wide column. Moreover, a feature
analysis of 80 NoSQL solutions has been provided, elaborating on the criteria
and points that a developer must consider while making a possible choice.
Typically, big data storage needs to communicate with the execution engine and
other processing and visualization technologies to create a comprehensive
solution. This brings forth second facet of big data storage, big data file
formats, into picture. The second half of the research paper compares the
advantages, shortcomings and possible use cases of available big data file
formats for Hadoop, which is the foundation for most big data computing
technologies. Decentralized storage and blockchain are seen as the next
generation of big data storage and its challenges and future prospects have
also been discussed
Experimental Performance Evaluation of Cloud-Based Analytics-as-a-Service
An increasing number of Analytics-as-a-Service solutions has recently seen
the light, in the landscape of cloud-based services. These services allow
flexible composition of compute and storage components, that create powerful
data ingestion and processing pipelines. This work is a first attempt at an
experimental evaluation of analytic application performance executed using a
wide range of storage service configurations. We present an intuitive notion of
data locality, that we use as a proxy to rank different service compositions in
terms of expected performance. Through an empirical analysis, we dissect the
performance achieved by analytic workloads and unveil problems due to the
impedance mismatch that arise in some configurations. Our work paves the way to
a better understanding of modern cloud-based analytic services and their
performance, both for its end-users and their providers.Comment: Longer version of the paper in Submission at IEEE CLOUD'1
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