A Big Data-as-a-Service Framework: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives

Due to the rapid advances of information technologies, Big Data, recognized with 4Vs characteristics (volume, variety, veracity, and velocity), bring significant benefits as well as many challenges. A major benefit of Big Data is to provide timely information and proactive services for humans. The primary purpose of this paper is to review the current state-of-the-art of Big Data from the aspects of organization and representation, cleaning and reduction, integration and processing, security and privacy, analytics and applications, then present a novel framework to provide high-quality so called Big Data-as-a-Service. The framework consists of three planes, namely sensing plane, cloud plane and application plane, to systemically address all challenges of the above aspects. Also, to clearly demonstrate the working process of the proposed framework, a tensor-based multiple clustering on bicycle renting and returning data is illustrated, which can provide several suggestions for rebalancing of the bicycle-sharing system. Finally, some challenges about the proposed framework are discussed.