Table 2: Big Data Analytics Platforms.
Tool Description Type of users Availability
Hadoop [39] It is an open source software that for data storage and distributed processing. Expert Open source and free
MaPR [26] Platform consists of a set of data management tools and other relatedsoftware. Expert Converged Community Edition is free
IBM Big Data [21] IBM platform offers many tools such as big SQL, Analytics for Apache Spark, BigIntegrate,Cloudant,Streams,Compose, and InfoSphere big match. Expert Commercial
KNIME Analytics [24] It is an open solution for data-driven innovation, data mining, or predict new futures. Average The limited version is available as Open Source and Free
Microsoft Azure [28] It is cloud based big data platform that it is for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications. Average Closed source for platform, Open source for client SDKs
Datameer [7] It is a platform that allows easy loading and extracting data from multiple sources regardless the data formats and it is built on the top of Hadoop. Average Commercial
Amazon Web Service [1] It provides a set of products for big data analysis such as compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security and enterprise applications. Average Commercial