Technology, Data Science, Business
Big Data as a Service
Business Value and an Architectural Overview
In this article, I want to introduce the business value, architecture, use cases, deployment, and service model of Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) which is a novel and rapidly growing Cloud-based service.
The service is offered to support big data and analytics solutions in a cost-effective manner. This service can be considered as a type of outsourcing model for the deployment of big data and analytics projects rapidly and inexpensively.
It is considered inexpensive because we can use the service without upfront investment for costly underlying infrastructure hosting the big data and analytics solutions.
Underlying infrastructure costs can include computing servers, storage, network, appliances, racks, hosting facilities, and more importantly infrastructure management and support costs.
The service presents multiple use cases and solution goals. The primary use case for BDaaS is a supply of data management and analytics tools performing the actual analysis and providing required reports to the relevant stakeholders in desired formats.
Some DBaaS service providers can also offer additional cost-effective services such as…
