Need of Hadoop and Map Reduce for Processing and Managing Big Data
The amount of data around us in three sixty degrees getting increased second on second and the world is exploding as a result the size of the database used in today's enterprises, which is growing at an exponential rate day by day. At the same time, the need to process and analyze the bulky data for business decision making has also increased. Several business and scientific applications generate terabytes of data which have to be processed in efficient manner on daily bases. Data gets collected and stored at unprecedented rates. Moreover the challenge here is not only to store and manage the huge amount of data, but even to analyze and extract meaningful values from it. This has contributed to the problem of big data faced by the industry due to the inability of usual software tools and database systems to manage and process the big data sets within reasonable time limits. The main focus of the chapter is on unstructured data analysis.