This lecture focuses on architecting Big Data solution. We will discuss the role and importance of the components in realizing system architectures. The participants will be introduced to unique problem characteristics that drive Big Data and the unending technology options to solve them. The application of the introduced concepts and components will be discussed in real-world example of practical use-cases.

This lecture will cover the existing advanced Big Data architectures following a bottom-up approach. In this lecture, the important knowledge to design and architect scalable solutions for challenging problems will be introduced. The primary components in the architecture of such systems and their architectures will be presented and discussed including “inter alia distributed kernels” and cluster managers, distributed file systems and storage systems.