
Data Management
Top 5 Big Data Tools Of 2022
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Overview
Set in 2054, a specialized police department led by the ageless Tom Cruise arrests criminals based on foresight. Three metahuman psychic beings (called Precogs) analyze crimes to predict when the next one will happen - so Tom Cruise can show up and prevent it. If there's one thing this guy loves, it's putting himself in danger!
Well, let's say we want to build a similar system using data on every crime that has ever occurred (we wonder if the Minority Report TV series would be on that list? Just kidding!). How would we ever store all that data or analyze and report the predictions? It's nearly impossible to unify such diverse global data sets into something our Precogs (read Machine Learning algorithms) could comprehend.
We need technology that can help us transform the vast unstructured data into valuable insights - and that's exactly what this article is about.
Jump right in!

Big Data is a field that focuses on systematically processing and analyzing data sets that are too large or complex to be processed using traditional techniques. Yes, even using the last row in Excel (1,048,576 to be precise) won't be enough to store Big Data - let alone analyze it! We need to rely on special heavy-duty software for Big Data analytics and extract valuable evidence or insights.
Although the term "Big Data" was coined by John R. Mashey in the 1990s, it only emerged practically in the early 2010s. Heck, it was in 2013 that Oxford English Dictionary added it as a new word! Yet, in less than a decade since, Big Data Tools have proliferated in response to the significant demand. These tools are helping streamline business strategies and fine-tune processes by making the most of the generated structured data. Besides, these tools can provide real-time stats and insights! Naturally, the market for the best Big Data Tools is booming.
So, join us as we list out a few BIG names in the world of Big Data Tools - and precisely why your business needs them.
Top 5 Big Data Tools Of 2022
Big Data Tools help in managing massive data sets and analyzing them to recognize patterns and trends. If your organization relies on open-source Big Data analysis, you need to equip yourself with these tools - old-school software isn't going to cut it!
To save you from the drudgery of research (and possibly being distracted by cute kitten GIFs on the Internet!), we have shortlisted for you, in random order, the Top 5 Big Data Tools of 2022.
Cloudera![]() |
MongoDB![]() |
Apache Kafka![]() |
Splunk![]() |
Pentaho![]() |
Tool 1: Cloudera's Enterprise Data Hub
Cloudera, Inc. is a US-based company that primarily provides enterprise cloud platforms to help businesses gain insights from raw data. They were named the "Best Big Data Platform" by peer-based market research magazine, Database Trends and Applications in 2019.

Cloudera's Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) is considered one of the most reliable Big Data Tool in the market. This hybrid cloud platform allows users to gather, process, manage and distribute unrestricted amounts of data. Moreover, Cloudera's tool also offers the capability to develop and train data models, which speeds up the data processing lifecycle to offer quicker insights. #Timeismoney, right?
Being a highly scalable platform, using EDH, businesses can quickly extract data from any environment - be it Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. Another convenient feature is the ability to terminate data clusters, so you only pay for the services you use.
The highlight, however, is the "Node Template" feature. This allows organizations to deploy a particular recurring node configuration by developing a template and reusing it to deploy additional nodes rather than rebuilding every time. Reduced process time, reliability and cost-savings - check!
Tool 2: MongoDB
MongoDB is a global software firm, with international headquarters in Dublin, that serves more than 26,000 customers in over 100 countries. Recently, MongoDB won the "2020 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year Award" - and if that wasn't impressive enough, MongoDB's customers include prominent brands such as Facebook, eBay, KPMG, Google, etc.

MongoDB is an open-source, non-relational, document-oriented database used for storing large volumes of data. Don't worry, we'll break it down for you! Being open-source, it gives users the freedom for custom development, not to mention access to an active community. A non-relational database makes MongoDB more versatile than a traditional database as it stores data as documents as opposed to tabular formats. That is, instead of rows and columns, MongoDB uses documents and collections of documents, making it highly flexible and efficient for business operations.
MongoDB is a perfect fit for those companies who wants to make quick decisions based on real-time information (like our hypothetical crime-prediction machine!). However, MongoDB acts not only as a real-time, operational database but also allows users to work offline, on locally synced data.
Another standout highlight is the intelligent performance optimization that offers auto-scaling features and custom recommendations for dynamic workloads to maximize speed and efficiency.
MongoDB's built-in Automated Capacity Management adjusts the data clusters' size, memory and storage based on changing requirements. In case you're wondering, yes, it all happens in real-time! Moreover, the tool boasts rich security features and privacy control to comply with Data Privacy regulations.
Tool 3: Hitachi Vantara's Pentaho
Remember when Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman teamed up in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to defeat Doomsday? Well, that is precisely what happened when tech-supers Hitachi Data Systems, Pentaho and Hitachi Insight Group combined into one company: Hitachi Vantara. Their customers include Logitech also NASDAQ.
Hitachi Vantara's Pentaho offers businesses modern and cost-effective Big Data solutions for enterprise-class operations. Pentaho expedites the entire data lifecycle - from combining the data from various clusters to extracting value - giving analysts a complete solution for Big Data integration and analytics. Apart from the real-time analytics capabilities, the tool packs a powerful visualization tool suite. This allows easy access to data-based insights, including charts, visualizations and reports.
The tool empowers businesses to develop a Big Data infrastructure at the data source itself, making for highly accurate analytics. Even if your data storage is sourced from a hundred different places, Pentaho supports the integration of Big Data from a broad spectrum of sources. Pentaho will help you turn BIG Data technology into BIG Insights, that's for sure!
Tool 4: Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka is an open-source platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation to provide businesses with a unified, low-latency tool for handling real-time large dataset feeds. Kafka was originally developed at LinkedIn over a decade ago but moved to an open-source model in 2011. Since then, it has won multiple honors and accolades, including winning "InfoWorld's 2019 Technology of the Year award."
Apache Kafka is essentially a tool that allows users to handle large volumes of rapid data, which is a requisite for real-time streaming and analytics of Big Data Tools. What's more, even with a very modest hardware setup, Kafka provides a high throughput; that is, you can send hundreds of thousands of messages per second using Kafka without relying on expensive servers! LinkedIn has reported that Kafka can consume roughly 1 trillion events a day and can process this data! That is an insanely huge number - and one of the reasons why Apache Kafka is a top Big Data Tool for us.
Kafka's highlight is that it can work seamlessly with some of the most popular enterprise software for ingesting data in real-time (such as HBase/ Flume/ Spark) as well as for Data Warehouse/ data lake applications, namely Hadoop, Azure, Redshift, etc. It can even collect data from publisher sources such as the Internet, websites and mobile apps. Apache Kafka is highly beneficial to businesses who wish to deploy wide messaging channels without the expensive hardware.
Tool 5: Splunk
Splunk Inc. is an American technology company headquartered in San Francisco which provides software to capture, index and correlate real-time data sets in a searchable repository. Their clients include heavyweights such as Coca-Cola, Comcast, Intel, Hyatt and Yelp - need we say more?

Splunk's platform is a powerful large datasets aggregator that can collect extensive amounts of data in real-time and generate insights through reports and visual dashboards. It is used by businesses to analyze machine-generated Big Data, which is advantageous to organizations in the domains of application management, security and compliance to identify discrepancies and to detect anomalies for compliance purposes.
Splunk is a comprehensive platform - it allows users to collect, index, search, analyze and visualize data in a single unified platform. It also organizes results to extract real-time insights from extensive amounts of machine data. Do you want to know about the best part? Splunk can ingest data, virtually, from any source - from multiple data centres, hybrid and public cloud infrastructures and distributed servers - across the globe. Moreover, Splunk lets you analyze and visualize years of data in a single, fluid dashboard. Wow, isn't that incredible?
Conclusion
Did you know - every 48 hours, we create as much information as we did from the beginning of time until 2003? Yes, we know, that is an insane statistic! More importantly, it's proof that without Big Data Tools, businesses would be lost in a sea of meaningless data. These tools help them make sense of what's happening in real-time, which allows them to adapt and strategize.
Which tool suits your firm the best? Let us know in the comments below!
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