ADDITIONAL READING

Chen, M., Mao, S., Zhang, Y., & Leung, V. C. M. (2014). Big Data: Related Technologies, Challenges and Future Prospects. Springer Briefs in Computer Science. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06245-7

Liu, C., Yang, C., Zhang, X., & Chen, J. (2015, August). External integrity verification for outsourced big data in cloud and IoT: A big picture. Future Generation Computer Systems, 49, 58-67. doi:10.1016/j.future.2014.08.007

KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

Big Data: It is a large volume of data which is beyond the storage capacity and processing power of traditional systems.

Big Data Security: It is to achieve the confidentiality, authenticity and integrity of the Big data collected, stored and processed.

Hadoop: It is the combination of HDFS and MapReduce.

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS): It is used to store data in distributed manner.

MapReduce: It is a process of splitting and executing queries across multiple nodes and combining the results from individual nodes to generate final output.