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Hands-On Big Data Modeling

By : James Lee, Tao Wei, Suresh Kumar Mukhiya
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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)

Big data management vendors

Due to the high prevalence of big data and its use in business intelligence, there are thousands of big data management vendors available in the market, ready to provide all data management services. Going through each of them would be beyond the scope of this book. In this section, we will explore ten big data management vendors. The list contained in this book does not guarantee the popularity or performance of each vendor. The list was created based on the use of state-of-the-art data analysis:

  • Alation: Alation is a newer organization, providing cloud-based data services that were created to centralize knowledge about a company's data and how to apply it. You can find out more about the company from the link provided in the Further study section.
  • AtScale: AtScale provides technology to facilitate familiar BI tools, in order to query data stored...