Big Data in Practice : A Study on Cloud Data Collection and Storage Services

With the rapid growth of emerging services and applications, a variety of data to be processed become huge. And the increasing demand for cloud services, including cloud storage, computing and backup, more and more cloud services are emerging. Although many free cloud services (such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) are available on the Internet, there is still much room for improvement. To store data in enterprises, General cloud storage space isn't suitable to deal with large and complex data. A NoSQL database would be the solution. The purpose of this study is to construct a cloud data collection and storage service via free cloud NoSQL database and relational database. We also test the performance and make comparison between NoSQL database and relational database. The benefit of our research is forming an architecture that could enhance the knowledge of using RDB and NoSQL database and let us clearly understand and realize the difference between them. We can also learn the detail process of collecting and storing big data from this study.