Towards effective 3D model management on hadoop

Abstract

In the age of big data, the volume of unstructured data, such as photo, image, video and 3D model, is rapidly growing. This paper proposes a 3D model management strategy based on Hadoop distributed file system to tackle the big data problem that 3D model management is facing. The file access characteristics are analyzed and two kinds of storage models are designed to store and index different data types in 3D models. Efficient storing and accessing algorithms are presented to load data and meet user requests. An experimental study is conducted to show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed methods. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.