Is Big Data Analytics Beyond the Reach of Small Companies?

Big data analytics is often prohibitively costly.It is typically conducted by parallel processing with a cluster of machines,and is considered a privilege of big companies that can afford the resources.This position paper argues that big data analytics is accessible to small companies with constrained resources.As an evidence,we present BEAS,a framework for querying big relations with constrained resources,based on bounded evaluation and data-driven approximation.