IEEE Transactions on Big Data

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From the October-December 2018 issue

Content-Aware Partial Compression for Textual Big Data Analysis in Hadoop

By Dapeng Dong and John Herbert

Featured article thumbnail image A substantial amount of information in companies and on the Internet is present in the form of text. The value of this semi-structured and unstructured data has been widely acknowledged, with consequent scientific and commercial exploitation. The ever-increasing data production, however, pushes data analytic platforms to their limit. Compression as an effective means to reduce data size has been employed by many emerging data analytic platforms, whom the main purpose of data compression is to save storage space and reduce data transmission cost over the network. Since general purpose compression methods endeavour to achieve higher compression ratios by leveraging data transformation techniques and contextual data, this context-dependency forces the access to the compressed data to be sequential. Processing such compressed data in parallel, such as desirable in a distributed environment, is extremely challenging. This work proposes techniques for more efficient textual big data analysis with an emphasis on content-aware compression schemes suitable for the Hadoop analytic platform. The compression schemes have been evaluated for a number of standard MapReduce analysis tasks using a collection of public and private real-world datasets. In comparison with existing solutions, they have shown substantial improvement in performance and significant reduction in system resource requirements.

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