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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)

Big data storage and data models

We have now explored what big data is, as well as its importance. A demand for storing and processing massive-scale datasets has encouraged the development of data storage and database systems over the past few years. With this advancement, storage systems and data models for big data have been improved and enhanced over time, from local storage to clustered, distributed to cloud-based storage. In this section, you will learn about some most popular storage models and data models:

Figure 2.1

The preceding diagram shows the taxonomy of data stores and data platforms, and the corresponding systems that are currently available in the market. Let's dig into each category in the next section.

Storage models

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