Big Data A Primer [Hardcover]

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.

Hrushikesha Mohanty is currently a professor at School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad. He received his Ph.D from IIT Kharagpur. His research interests include Distributed Computing, Software Engineering and Computational Social Science. Before joining University of Hyderabad, he worked at Electronics Corporation of India Limited for developing strategic real-time systems. Other than computer science research publications, he has penned three anthologies of Odia poems and several Odia short stories.

Prachet Bhuyan is presently an associate professor at KIIT University. He completed his bachelor and master degrees in computer science and engineering from Utkal University and VTU, Belgaum respectively. His researchl“A