Title: A big data and cloud computing specification, standards and architecture: agricultural and food informatics

Authors: Na Li; Nitaigour Premchand Mahalik

Addresses: Department of Industrial Technology, California State University, Fresno, California, USA; Office of IT Management, Jiangsu Administration Institute, China ' Department of Industrial Technology, California State University, Fresno, California, USA

Abstract: Big data has gone from emerging to a widely used technology in industrial, commercial, research, and database applications. It is used for processing and analysing massive sets of data to derive useful patterns, inferences, and relations. The real-time data storage and management architecture plays important role. This paper introduces big data, includes the background and definitions, characteristics, related technologies, and challenges associated with implementing big data-based application technologies. This paper also introduces cloud computing, a related yet independent emerging technology and includes the modern technologies and standards, definitions, service and deployment models, advantages and challenges, and development prospects. The paper considers computing specification, standardised procedure, and system architecture in regard to big data systems and cloud computing.

Keywords: big data; knowledge discovery in database; KDD; data mining; cloud computing; virtualisation; architecture.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2019.097687

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2019 Vol.14 No.2, pp.159 - 174

Received: 31 Mar 2016
Accepted: 14 Oct 2016
Published online: 05 Feb 2019 *

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