Early Experience with Model-Driven Development of MapReduce Based Big Data Application

With internet becoming increasingly pervasive, data analytics is playing increasingly critical role in the business. Data to be analyzed exists in large quantity and in multiple formats. Many technologies exist to support Big Data analytics. However, they remain somewhat of a challenge for average developer to use. It's been seen that model-driven development (MDD) approach can eliminate accidental complexity to a large extent. We discuss MDD approach for development of MapReduce based Big Data applications, its efficacy and lessons learnt.