Overview of Big Data Analytics

In this chapter, we will talk about big data analytics, starting with a general point of view and then taking a deep pe into some common technologies used to gain insights into data. This chapter introduces the reader to the process of examining large data sets to uncover patterns in data, generating reports, and gathering valuable insights. We will particularly focus on the seven Vs of big data. We will also learn about data analysis and big data; we will see the challenges that big data provides and how they are dealt with in distributed computing, and look at approaches using Hive and Tableau to showcase the most commonly used technologies.

In a nutshell, the following topics will be covered throughout this chapter:

• Introduction to data analytics
• Introduction to big data
• Distributed computing using Apache Hadoop
• MapReduce framework
• Hive
• Apache Spark