Big data analytics (BDA) is used to build competitive advantage, drive innovations, and enhance revenue. This capability offers a cost-effective cloud-based solution for data analytics. As big data grows in importance, organizations are striving to derive meaningful insight from this data. This is crucial to enabling an ability to respond to real business needs in a timely manner.
The following diagram illustrates a simplified enterprise cloud architecture for a BDA environment and contains three network zones: public, cloud service provider, and enterprise:
This architecture is similar to that of a data lake deployment. Both structured and non-structured data are used as sources. Data is then staged and transformed by data integration and stream computing engines, after which it is stored in various repositories. The...