Big data and stream processing platforms for Industry 4.0 requirements mapping for a predictive maintenance use case

•Literature review of the strengths and weaknesses of big data stream processing technologies for Industry 4.0.•Identifying a set of requirements for predictive maintenance use cases including the railway transportation industry and the wind turbines energy industry.•Providing a breadth-first mapping of predictive maintenance requirements to the strengths & weaknesses of open source Big Data streaming technologies.