Big Data Analytics: Importance, Challenges, Categories, Techniques, and Tools

Abstract

With the gigantic explosion of the volume of data generated every single day, big data analytics has born as a powerful technology for various organizations. This paper explores the importance of big data analytics for different domains, the challenges of utilizing big data analytics due to the complex nature of big data, and the technical approaches that are used for handling this complexity such as Hadoop, Spark, and Storm. This paper also reviews the challenges associated with big data based on the literature. Furthermore, big data analytics categories are investigated including text, audio, and video.