Querying big data

Abstract

The term "Big Data" became a buzzword and is widely used in both research and industrial worlds. Typically the concept of big data assumes a variety of different sources of information and velocity of complex analytical processing, rather than just a huge and growing volume of data. All variety, velocity, and volume create new research challenges, as nearly all techniques and tools commonly used in data processing have to be re-considered. Variety and uncertainty of big data require a mixture of exact and similarity search and grouping of complex objects based on different attributes. High-level declarative query languages are important in this context due to expressiveness and potential for optimization.