Conceptual Architecture of GATE Big Data Platform

Today we experience a data-driven society. All human activities, industrial processes and research lead to data generation of unprecedented scale, spurring new products, services and businesses. Big Data and its application have been a target for European Commission with more than 100 FP7 and about 50 H2020 funded projects under Big Data domain. GATE project aims to establish and sustain in the long run a Centre of Excellence as collaborative environment for conducting Big Data research and innovation, facilitated by GATE platform and Innovation Labs. This paper proposes a conceptual architecture of GATE platform, that is holistic, symbiotic, open, evolving and data-integrated. It is also modular and with component-based design that allows to position a mix of products and tools from different providers. GATE platform will enable start-ups, SMEs and large enterprises, as well as other organizations in a wide range of sectors, to build advanced Data driven services and applications. The usability of the proposed architecture is proven through a development of a sample time series data visualization application. Its architecture follows the proposed one through implementation of required components using open technology stack.