10 Most Evolving Big Data Technologies to Catch Up on in 2022

Data engirds the entire world. Data is evolving just like any other thing on this globe. Being a part of this tech-oriented world, today we human beings create as much information in just 2 days as we did since the beginning of time till 2003.

Amazed? Well, there’s more.

The number of data industries store and capture magnifies every 1.2 years. Nonetheless, in this modern age of technological innovations and computational advancements, we upload 200 thousand photos on Facebook, generate 278 thousand tweets on Twitter, 1.8 million Facebook likes, and send 204 million emails every second! Facebook users share 30 billion pieces of content among them each day. Talking of Google, alone processes approximately 40,000 search queries every second, making it more than 3.5 billion in a single day. The data centers of this era occupy an area of land equivalent to the size of almost 6000 football fields. Hence, data evolution is unpredictable.

Do you know that bad data can cost an organization up to 20% of its revenue? Astonishing isn’t it? But the question arises how to dodge it? How to process that vast amount of data? how to clean it? Analyze it? How to Form connections, patterns, trends, and correlations out of it? Here’s when big data technologies get developers’ and IT experts’ back.

Recently, big data has been on the tip of the tongue of almost everyone, paving the way from hype to mainstream. Undoubtedly, efficient and accurate data management for enterprises is crucial to stay competitive in this tech-driven era. Thanks to the emergence of revolutionary artificial intelligence and innovative machine learning algorithms due to which an essential sub-field called Big Data can come into existence. From healthcare to manufacturing, to retail to the entertainment industry, big data is everywhere. Big data helps IT experts deal with several sets of complex real-time data analytics. Big data is defined by its qualities, also called 4 V’s – Veracity, Variety, Velocity, and Volume. Installation of big data technologies in the computer systems of developers and IT experts help to transform data into business insights. Moreover, big data technologies are categorized into 4 major fields of efficient utilization data analytics, data mining, data visualization, and data storage

Below is the list of the 10 most evolving big data technologies emerging prominently in 2022 and upcoming years.

So without further ado, let’s glide right into it.

• Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a free open search distributed analytics engine. It includes structured, unstructured, geospatial, numerical, and textual types of data. It is built on Apache Lucene, known for its scalability, speed, REST APIs, and distributed nature.

Language Support

Elasticsearch supports the following programming languages:

• Ruby
• Python
• Perl
• PHP
• .NET (C#)
• Go
• Java
• Javascript (Node.js)

• Hadoop

Hadoop is a very popular open-source framework or data platform which was developed and deployed in Java. The purpose of Hadoop is to store, analyze, and process vast sets of unstructured data. Cutting-edge big data technologies engirdled the world with the data splitting from digital media. However, Apache Hadoop was one of those inventions that exhibited this wave of modernization.

Language Support

Hadoop supports several programming languages. Some of them are as follow:

• R
• PHP
• C++
• Python
• Perl

• MongoDB

MongoDB is a distributed document-oriented database. It aims to facilitate the data management of structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data in real-time for application developers. It also helps to store data in documents similar to JSON to allow dynamic and flexible schemas. It provides a dominant query language for indexing, ad hoc queries, graph search, text search, geo-based search, aggregation, and many other facilities.

Language Support

MongoDB supports a broad range of popular programming languages. Here are a few of them:

• Erlang
• Go
• Scala
• Ruby
• Python
• PHP
• Perl
• Node.js
• Java
• C#
• C
• C++

• Tableau

A robust big data technology, Tableau can be connected to numerous open-source databases. It provides free public options to create proper visualization. The platform offers several amazing features such as integration with over 250 applications, assistance to solve real-time big data analytics issues, moderate speed to improve extensive operation, and more.

Language Support

Tableau SDK can be implemented using any of the following languages:

• Python 2
• Java
• C
• C++

• Cassandra

Apache Cassandra is a reliable, robust, free, and open-source wide column store distributed NoSQL database management system. It is designed to handle an extensive amount of data across several commodity servers, providing high availability and scalability with not even a single chance of risk or failure.

Language Support

• Cassandra supports Cassandra query language (SQL) to communicate with Cassandra Apache database.

How to get started with Cassandra?

Pre-Installation Setup

We require to set up Linux using ssh (Secure Shell) before installing Cassandra in the Linux environment.

Create a user

In the beginning, it is recommended to create a separate user for Hadoop to isolate the Hadoop file system from the Unix file system. Follow the steps given below to create a user.

• Open root using the command “su”.
• Create a user from the root account using the command “useradd username”.
• Now you can open an existing user account using the command “su username”.
• Open the Linux terminal and type the following commands to create a user.

$ su

password:

# useradd hadoop

# passwd hadoop

New passwd:

Retype new passwd

SSH Setup and Key Generation

SSH setup is required to perform different operations on a cluster such as starting, stopping, and distributed daemon shell operations. To authenticate different users of Hadoop, it is required to provide public/private key pair for a Hadoop user and share it with different users.

The following commands are used for generating a key value pair using SSH −

• copy the public keys form id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys,
• and provide owner,
• read and write permissions to authorized_keys file respectively.

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

$ chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

• Verify ssh:

ssh localhost

Java Installation

Java is the main prerequisite for Cassandra. First of all, you should verify the existence of Java in your system using the following command −

$ java -version

If everything works fine it will give you the following output.

java version “”1.7.0_71″”

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_71-b13)

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.0-b02, mixed mode)

If you don’t have Java in your system, then follow the steps given below for installing Java.

Step 1

Download java (JDK <latest version> – X64.tar.gz) from the following link:

Then jdk-7u71-linux-x64.tar.gz will be downloaded onto your system.

Step 2

Generally you will find the downloaded java file in the Downloads folder. Verify it and extract the jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz file using the following commands.

$ cd Downloads/

$ ls

jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz

$ tar zxf jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz

$ ls

jdk1.7.0_71 jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz

Step 3

To make Java available to all users, you have to move it to the location “/usr/local/”. Open root, and type the following commands.

$ su

password:

# mv jdk1.7.0_71 /usr/local/

# exit

Step 4

For setting up PATH and JAVA_HOME variables, add the following commands to ~/.bashrc file.

export JAVA_HOME = /usr/local/jdk1.7.0_71

export PATH = $PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

Now apply all the changes into the current running system.

$ source ~/.bashrc

Step 5

Use the following commands to configure java alternatives.

# alternatives –install /usr/bin/java java usr/local/java/bin/java 2

# alternatives –install /usr/bin/javac javac usr/local/java/bin/javac 2

# alternatives –install /usr/bin/jar jar usr/local/java/bin/jar 2

# alternatives –set java usr/local/java/bin/java

# alternatives –set javac usr/local/java/bin/javac

# alternatives –set jar usr/local/java/bin/jar

Now use the java -version command from the terminal as explained above.

Setting the Path

Set the path of Cassandra path in “/.bashrc” as shown below.

[[email protected] ~]$ gedit ~/.bashrc

export CASSANDRA_HOME = ~/cassandra

export PATH = $PATH:$CASSANDRA_HOME/bin

Download Cassandra

Apache Cassandra is available at Download Link Cassandra using the following command.

$ wget http://supergsego.com/apache/cassandra/2.1.2/apache-cassandra-2.1.2…

Unzip Cassandra using the command zxvf as shown below.

$ tar zxvf apache-cassandra-2.1.2-bin.tar.gz.

Create a new directory named cassandra and move the contents of the downloaded file to it as shown below.

$ mkdir Cassandra

$ mv apache-cassandra-2.1.2/* cassandra.

Configure Cassandra

Open the cassandra.yaml: file, which will be available in the bin directory of Cassandra.

$ gedit cassandra.yaml

Note − If you have installed Cassandra from a deb or rpm package, the configuration files will be located in /etc/cassandra directory of Cassandra.

The above command opens the cassandra.yaml file. Verify the following configurations. By default, these values will be set to the specified directories.

• data_file_directories “/var/lib/cassandra/data”
• commitlog_directory “/var/lib/cassandra/commitlog”
• saved_caches_directory “/var/lib/cassandra/saved_caches”

Make sure these directories exist and can be written to, as shown below.

Create Directories

As super-user, create the two directories /var/lib/cassandra and /var./log/cassandra into which Cassandra writes its data.

[[email protected] cassandra]# mkdir /var/lib/cassandra

[[email protected] cassandra]# mkdir /var/log/cassandra

Give Permissions to Folders

Give read-write permissions to the newly created folders as shown below.

[[email protected] /]# chmod 777 /var/lib/cassandra

[[email protected] /]# chmod 777 /var/log/cassandra

Start Cassandra

To start Cassandra, open the terminal window, navigate to Cassandra home directory/home, where you unpacked Cassandra, and run the following command to start your Cassandra server.

$ cd $CASSANDRA_HOME

$./bin/cassandra -f

Using the –f option tells Cassandra to stay in the foreground instead of running as a background process. If everything goes fine, you can see the Cassandra server starting.

Programming Environment

To set up Cassandra programmatically, download the following jar files −

• slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar
• cassandra-driver-core-2.0.2.jar
• guava-16.0.1.jar
• metrics-core-3.0.2.jar
• netty-3.9.0.Final.jar

Place them in a separate folder. For example, we are downloading these jars to a folder named “Cassandra_jars”.

Set the classpath for this folder in “.bashrc”file as shown below.

[[email protected] ~]$ gedit ~/.bashrc

//Set the following class path in the .bashrc file.

export CLASSPATH = $CLASSPATH:/home/hadoop/Cassandra_jars/*

Eclipse Environment

Open Eclipse and create a new project called Cassandra _Examples.

Right click on the project, select Build Path→Configure Build Path as shown below.

It will open the properties window. Under Libraries tab, select Add External JARs. Navigate to the directory where you saved your jar files. Select all the five jar files and click OK as shown below.

Under Referenced Libraries, you can see all the required jars added as shown below −

Maven Dependencies

Given below is the pom.xml for building a Cassandra project using maven.

<project xmlns = “”http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0″”

xmlns:xsi = “”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance””

xsi:schemaLocation = “”http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd“”>

<build>

<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>

<plugins>

<plugin>

<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>

<version>3.1</version>

<configuration>

<source>1.7</source>

<target>1.7</target>

</configuration>

</plugin>

</plugins>

</build>

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>

<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>

<version>1.7.5</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.datastax.cassandra</groupId>

<artifactId>cassandra-driver-core</artifactId>

<version>2.0.2</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>

<artifactId>guava</artifactId>

<version>16.0.1</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.codahale.metrics</groupId>

<artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>

<version>3.0.2</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>io.netty</groupId>

<artifactId>netty</artifactId>

<version>3.9.0.Final</version>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

</project>

• RapidMiner

The top-notch big data platform, RapidMiner, delivers transformational business insights to several industries. It plays a pivotal role in upskilling organizations’ extensibility and portability. RapidMiner is popular among researchers and non-programmers because of its compatibility with Flask, NodeJS, Android, iOS, and more.

Language Support

RapidMiner Studio currently supports The following languages:

• English