Big Data Processing and Application Research

Nowadays, big data has become a constantly extended and widely mentioned term. It can excavate, describe and utilize a large amount of structured, unstructured and semi-structured data to obtain more information. With the rapid increase of data, big data has become more and more diverse, and the big data technology has emerged consequently. This paper reviews the literature of big data and the related technologies, such as Hadoop and Map Reduce. And it discusses the life cycle of big data, that is, big data acquisition, preprocessing, storage and analysis. Then it expounds the representative application of big data. Finally, based on the above study, this paper summarizes the development of big data.