Big Data - What is it?

Big Data Technologies

Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google for its own use. It is designed to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware. A new version of the Google File System is codenamed Colossus which was released in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System

research.google.com/archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf

Google Dremel

research.google.com/pubs/archive/36632.pdf

https://cloud.google.com/files/BigQueryTechnicalWP.pdf

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/googles-dremel-makes-big-data-look-small/

https://berlinbuzzwords.de/session/google-bigquery-explained

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/8/4/dremel-interactive-analysis-of-web-scale-datasets-data-as-a.html

https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DrillProposal

http://www.chrisconley.me/2013/07/dremel-db-column-striping-and-record-assembly-in-go/

http://mattturck.com/2016/02/01/big-data-landscape/