Big Data as a Service at Mass Open Cloud
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 2017-05-10

We describe the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) solution we built on top of OpenStack. BDaaS allow users access public data sets and stand up Hadoop and SPARK environments on-demand to work on these datasets. We use Cloud Dataverse, an open-source framework that can store data in Ceph, as our data repository. Ceph's RADOS gateway (RGW) is used as a gateway between the Big Data analysis tasks and the Ceph storage service. To improve the performance of the Big Data env