“Big” Data Management in Cloud Computing Environment

Cloud computing fulfills the demand of the people, to use the computing as a tool or utility by providing the elastic, cost-effective, easy to maintain computing resources over the Internet across the world. As a result, more and more devices connecting themselves using the Internet and enabling web technologies to access such computing utilities require more and more processing and storage equipment’s. Such response in the rate of adoption of cloud-based application led to the massive growth in size of data or we can say it “big data”. This work is going to focuses on the data management aspects of cloud computing as traditional relational database management principles are facing problems in managing and handling the big data. Through this paper, we are also going to discuss the definition, characteristics, relationship of big data with cloud computing, and open issues in the field.