Convergence of Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Computing

To help understand the role of Cloud Computing in handling Big Data we can say that Big Data represents the content while Cloud Computing is the supporting infrastructure.

Big Data is really causing a buzz these days. This term is being used for data sets that are so large and/or complex that traditional data processing application software(s) struggle to deal with them. Primary challenges with these data sets include capture, storage, analysis, data curation, search, sharing, transfer, visualization, querying, updating and information privacy. Some of the tools to handle Big Data challenges include Hadoop MapReduce and NoSQL. A key point to note is that these two tools (NoSQL and Hadoop) are not competitors and a good design capable of handling high volume of data and providing analytics often utilizes both.