Resource Management and Scheduling for Big Data Applications in Cloud Computing Environments

This chapter presents software architectures of the big data processing platforms. It also provides in-depth knowledge on resource management techniques involved while deploying big data processing systems in the cloud environment. It starts from the very basics and gradually introduce the core components of resource management which are divided into multiple layers. It covers the state-of-art practices and researches done in SLA-based resource management with a specific focus on the job scheduling mechanisms.