Introduction to Big Data Processing Systems

Motivation

It might not be an understatement to say that data runs our world. From calculating accurate travel times for a map allocation by taking dynamic traffic information into account to personalized recommendations for pretty much all the services, such as shopping, list of songs, etc., it is data that needs to be harnessed to get the right information.

What we will learn

We have selected three big data processing papers to discuss in the following few chapters:

• [MapReduce] Dean, Jeffrey, and Sanjay Ghemawat. MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters. OSDI’04: Sixth Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (2008): pp. 137-150. ...