A Framework for Big Data as a Service

Cloud computing has become popular and grown to be a dominant computing model as a result of several advantages it has compared to other computing models. In addition to having desirable properties such as agility and flexibility, cloud computing helps users to save a significant amount of expense that is related to infrastructure investment, management and maintenance. Many types of services have been hosted in different stacks of the cloud from low-level stacks such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to high-level stacks such as Software as a Service (SaaS) and Data as a Service (DaaS). Given that anything can be developed and deployed as a service in the cloud and an increasing demand for big data processing, a new type of cloud computing service, Big Data as a Service (BDaaS), has been introduced recently. In this paper, we will present a high-level design of a general framework for BDaaS. But prior to that, we will discuss properties and challenges of building such framework.