intro

Question 1

what are the four v’s of big data and their description

Answer 1

volume: large scale of data
velocity: analysis of streaming data
variety: different forms of data
veracity: uncertainty of data

Question 2

what are the applications of big data

Answer 2

*Full scans (e.g., log processing)
* Range scans
* Point lookups
* Iterations
* Joins (self, binary, or multiway)
* Proximity queries
* Closures and graph traversals
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Question 3

what are the applications of big data computation

Answer 3

MLlib (Machine Learning), GraphX, Streaming, Big spatial
data, Visualization

Question 4

what does it mean to ‘ship computation to data’

Answer 4

Uploading data to the cloud for storage