A State of the Art on Big Data With Semantic Web Technologies
We live in a digital world where a large amount of data is being generated rapidly by various diverse sources with an unprecedented rate. The term Big Data has been coined to represent a large amount of data. But Big Data could not be processed and analysed by traditional database management systems. A number of challenges such as data heterogeneity and diversity are being faced by enterprises due to high volume, variety, and velocity of Big Data. Since the past few years, some research efforts have been attempted to integrate semantic web technologies such as ontologies with Big Data. This integration is paving the way to deal with various issues that are related to the processing of Big Data. This chapter firstly uncovers the fundamentals of Big Data, its characteristics and opportunities, challenges, related current tools, and technologies. Secondly, it tries to highlight the integration of Big Data with semantic web technologies. The promising research is going on to tackle volume and velocity of Big Data by using semantic technologies.