What is Transaction Processing

Development and wide acceptance of data-driven applications in many aspects of our daily lives is generating waste volume of diverse data, which can be collected and analyzed to support various valuable decisions. Management and processing of this big data is a challenge. The development and extensive use of highly distributed and scalable systems to process big data have been widely considered. New data management architectures (e.g., distributed file systems and NoSQL databases) are used in this context. However, features of big data like their complexity and data analytics demands indicate that these concepts solve big data problems only partially. A development of so called NewSQL databases is highly relevant and even special category of big data management systems is considered. In this chapter, the authors discuss these trends and evaluate some current approaches to big data processing and analytics, identify the current challenges, and suggest possible research directions.