‘Big Data’- Architecture, Issues, Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract - The Internet has become a new source of vast amount of data. The amount of data available on internet has exploded due to new social behaviors, information sharing, social networking as and vast spread of software systems.  Big Data has become a center of focus in science, research and in industry. It has wide range of applications in different fields of study such as education, networking, healthcare, mobile systems, web logs, traffic control systems etc. Big Data software and services support an innovative eco-system and generate value by enabling completely new generation of solutions that were not possible before.  Thus, there is a vital need to define and understand the basic information related to Big Data environment. This paper give a brief introduction to the big data environment and discusses a the Big Data reference architecture, Big Data applicability in different areas of study, opportunities provided and challenges faced by Big Data systems.