A Study of Big Data Definition, Layered Architecture and Challenges of Big Data Analytics

Big data has drawn great attention from researchers in decision makers, information sciences and policy in enterprises and government. There are so much potential and useful hidden values in the enormous volume of data. Big data is tremendously valuable to provide productivity in evolutionary breakthroughs in scientific disciplines and businesses. It facilitates lot of opportunities to develop great progresses in many domains. Moreover, big data also comes with many challenges including data collection, data analysis, data storage and data visualization. This paper provides the review on big data definitions, layered architecture and common big data challenges. There is no doubt that the future world in technologies and business productivity will converge into the explorations of big data.