Big Data, Data Streaming, and the Mobile Cloud
Abstract
This chapter covers three of the most exciting and demanding classes of cloud applications, Big Data, data streaming, and mobile cloud computing. Big Data and data streaming applications require low-latency, scalability, versatility, and a high degree of fault-tolerance. Achieving these qualities at scale is extremely challenging.
The chapter starts with a discussion of defining attributes of Big Data and of the Mesa datastore, Spanner, and F1 databases developed at Google for storing massive amounts of data. Many cloud applications process Big Data; data analytics is an important class of such applications. Bootstrapping techniques offer a low latency alternative for responding ...
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