The Big Data ecosystem

For a beginner, the landscape can be utterly confusing. There is vast arena of technologies and equally varied use cases. There is no single go-to solution; every use case has a custom solution and this widespread technology stack and lack of standardization is making Big Data a difficult path to tread for developers. There are a multitude of technologies that exist which can draw meaningful insight out of this magnitude of data.

Let's begin with the basics: the environment for any data analytics application creation should provide for the following:

  • Storing data
  • Enriching or processing data
  • Data analysis and visualization

If we get to specialization, there are specific Big Data tools and technologies available; for instance, ...

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