Below is a (incomplete!) list of big data tools. You have been assigned one to answer the following questions:

• Does it help with storage, access, processing, modelling or visualization of data?

• What does it do? (in words you understand)

• What other tools (in this list or elsewhere) is it related to and how?

• Is there a corresponding R package?

• Provide a link where people could find out more about the tool.

You should provide your answers in the text submission box in the Blackboard assignment.

Tools:
Storm - James
JSON - Brintz
NoSQL - Zhang
MLib - Pahukula
MongoDB - Wei
Weka - Lei
Mahout - Skalland
PMML - Narendra Babu
D3.js - Dong
Flot - Choi
Spark - Zongo
Hive - Guermond
Pig - Kitada
Drill - Shellhammer
BigQuery - Edwards, E.
GraphX - Eng
Blink - Wang
Redshift - Edwards, M.
Shark - Olstad
CouchDB - Bernath
MLBase - Zhuo
Samoa (by Yahoo) - Guyer