Big data in cloud computing: A review of key technologies and open issues

Abstract

Academia, industry and government as well, are involved in big data projects. Many researches on big data applications and technologies are actively being conducted. This paper presents a literature review of recent researches on key technologies and open issues for big data management via cloud computing. Its goal is to identify and evaluate the main technology components and their impacts on cloud-based big data implementations. This is achieved by reviewing 40 publications published in the latest four years, 2014–2017. We classified the results based on the main technical aspects: frameworks, databases and data processing techniques, and programming languages. This paper also provides a reference source for researchers and developers, to determine the best emerging technologies for big data project implementation.