Despite continual improvements in the performance and reliability of large scale file systems, the management of user-defined file system metadata has changed little in the past decade. The mismatch between the size and complexity of large scale data stores and their ability to organize and query their metadata has led to a de facto standard in which raw data is stored in traditional file syste...

In many business settings, a relational database system (RDBMS) will serve as the storage manager for data from XML documents. In such a system, once the XML data is dissembled and loaded into the storage system, XML queries posed against the (virtual) XML documents are processed by translating them into SQL queries against the relational storage. However, for applications which frequently upda...

The paper's objective is to provide classification, characteristics and evaluation of available relational database systems which may be used in Big Data Predictions and Analytics. In addition, it provides a teaching approach from moving relational database to the Big Data environment. In this study, we try to answer the question of why Relational Database Bases Management Systems such as IBM’s...