A Survey of Big Data Tools for Remote Healthcare Services

Abstract Health Data storage and analytics are the two important parts of the health or drugs business and health research. Health Data storage and management are important for storing and retrieving Health Data efficiently. The scalable and flexible infrastructure capable of efficient storing and processing the millions of Health Data generated every day must be very much needed for the industry. Big Data tools and NoSQL databases are becoming the necessary tools to store millions of data and respond to given queries efficiently. In general relational databases are used for many applications, but they are not at all efficient for storing and processing Big Data. The drawbacks of relational databases motivate the developers to use NoSQL databases and Big Data tools while creating the Health application. A comparative study must be made to find out the performance of different Big Data platforms along with the NoSQL Databases to store Health Data for a Health-related application and to respond to queries efficiently. In this paper, we have tested the performance of Hadoop, HIVE, Cassandra, MongoDB, HBASE and NGMR to respond to different queries to store Health Data for a remote health framework. Such a study helps us to come up with new ideas that can help us to store and retrieve the Health Data of a particular application using a data model that is iteratively tested and modified. It provides us with an understanding of the Big Data solution or tool as well. The key aim of the study is to make a review on the capability of data storage and the read/write performance of the tools