COMP9313 Big Data Management  
This course introduces the core concepts and technologies involved in managing Big
Data. Topics include: characteristics of Big Bata and Big Data analysis, storage
systems  e.g. HDFS, S3, techniques for manipulating Big Data  e.g. MapReduce, streaming,
compression, programming languages  e.g. Spark, PigLatin, query languages  e.g. Jaql, Hive, database
systems  e.g. noSQL systems, HBase, and typical applications  e.g. recommender systems, dimensionality
reduction, text analysis.