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Hands-On Big Data Modeling

By : James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya
Book Image

Hands-On Big Data Modeling

By: James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya

Overview of this book

Modeling and managing data is a central focus of all big data projects. In fact, a database is considered to be effective only if you have a logical and sophisticated data model. This book will help you develop practical skills in modeling your own big data projects and improve the performance of analytical queries for your specific business requirements. To start with, you’ll get a quick introduction to big data and understand the different data modeling and data management platforms for big data. Then you’ll work with structured and semi-structured data with the help of real-life examples. Once you’ve got to grips with the basics, you’ll use the SQL Developer Data Modeler to create your own data models containing different file types such as CSV, XML, and JSON. You’ll also learn to create graph data models and explore data modeling with streaming data using real-world datasets. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to design and develop efficient data models for varying data sizes easily and efficiently.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Summary

Big data is ubiquitous; it can be found everywhere, from small businesses to enterprise applications. It is of vital importance that this data is captured, stored, retrieved, and analyzed in the best possible way in order to get a deeper analysis and business intelligence. In this chapter, we learned about the concept of big data and where it originates from. We also discussed the different characteristics of big data and the theoretical foundation of data modeling and data management.

In addition to this, readers got a chance to install a big data platform on their local machine for both macOS and Windows machines. We will be using these machines in upcoming chapters to create database models. In the next chapter, we will be discussing data-modeling and data-management platforms.