Big Data and Cloud Computing

Abstract

Big data is the analysis and interpretation of large volumes of data of great variety. This requires big data-specific solutions that enable IT professionals to work with unstructured information at a great speed. Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing power, database storage, applications, and other IT resources over the internet with a price set according to usage. The relationship between cloud and big data is narrow, where the first is the infrastructure that, in a corporate environment, supports the second, which has enough capacity to process data in large numbers. The connection between these concepts is due to the fact that, in order to deal with big data, an infrastructure is needed that allows the storage, processing, and retrieval of the most varied types of data on a large scale, that is, it has a constant growth. Therefore, this chapter aims to provide an updated review of big data and cloud computing, showing and approaching its success relation with a concise bibliographic background, categorizing and synthesizing the potential of both technologies.