Big Data: A Primer (Studies in Big Data Book 11)

This book is a collection of chapters written by experts on various aspects of big data. The book aims to explain what big data is and how it is stored and used. The book starts from the fundamentals and builds up from there. It is intended to serve as a review of the state-of-the-practice in the field of big data handling. The traditional framework of relational databases can no longer provide appropriate solutions for handling big data and making it available and useful to users scattered around the globe. The study of big data covers a wide range of issues including management of heterogeneous data, big data frameworks, change management, finding patterns in data usage and evolution, data as a service, service-generated data, service management, privacy and security. All of these aspects are touched upon in this book. It also discusses big data applications in different domains. The book will prove useful to students, researchers, and practicing database and networking engineers. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Big Data: An Introduction....Pages 1-28 Big Data Architecture....Pages 29-59 Big Data Processing Algorithms....Pages 61-91 Big Data Search and Mining....Pages 93-120 Security and Privacy of Big Data....Pages 121-136 Big Data Service Agreement....Pages 137-160 Applications of Big Data....Pages 161-179 Back Matter....Pages 181-184