A Survey on Big data Analytics in Cloud Environment

Abstract

The continuous and rapid growth in the volume of data captured by organizations, such as social media, Internet of Things (IoT), machines, multimedia, GPS has produced an overwhelming flow of data. Data creation is occurring at a record rate, referred to as big data, and has emerged as a widely recognized trend. To take advantage of big data, real-time analysis and reporting must be provided in tandem with the massive capacity needed to store and process the data. Big data is affecting organization such as Banking, Education, Government, Health care, Manufacturing, retails and eventually, the society. On the other hand, Cloud computing eliminates the need to maintain expensive computing hardware, dedicated space, and software. Cloud provides larger volume of space for the storage and different set of services for all kind of applications to the cloud customers. Therefore, all the companies are nowadays migrating their applications towards cloud environment, because of the huge reduce in the overall investment and greater flexibility provided by the cloud.