List of major big data tools

To bring in and use big and non-traditional information streams, there are many software packages, data management and storage methods, new communication protocols, programming tools, and cloud-computing services, coming mostly from the IT side. Here's an incomplete list and glossary of the primary players:

• Cassandra or Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source distributed database management system designed to handle lots of data across servers with high availability with no single point of failure
• Cloudera provides Apache Hadoop-based software, support, services and training
• Dynamic SQL is a programming method that lets users build SQL statements dynamically at runtime
• Hadoop is an open-source, Java-based programming framework that supports processing and storage of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. It's part of the Apache project sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation
• Mongo DB is a free, open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database program classified as a NoSQL database program, and uses JSON-like documents with schemas
• MySQL is an open-source database and Oracle's big data intelligence platform and application
• Power BI 9 is Microsoft's data visualization and business analytics tool
• SAP Hana is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP SE
• Spark Streaming is an extension of the core Spark API that enables scalable, high-throughput, fault-tolerant stream processing of live data streams
• Splunk produces software for searching, monitoring and analyzing machine-generated big data using a web-based interface
• Tableau data visualization software that joins databases and graphics
• TrendMiner is a predictive analytics tool for the process industry

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