Technology mechanisms represent well-defined IT artifacts that are established within an IT industry.

Functionality for analysing the transformed and standardized data in a data analytics tool.

Management of clusters in a distributed or cloud based infrastructure

Big data sets can be voluminous so compressing has advantages for storage and/or processing

Coordination of automated tasks for example in batch processes and mapreduce.

Register function for the governance of data sets in relation to consumers, business owners and qualities.

Transformation and transfer functionality from data sources to storage, processing and usage.

Processing of data for transformation, cleaning and filtering of data

Portal functionality to give users and administrator access to the other logical functionalities in a Big Data environment.

Retrieval and querying function on the transformed and standardized datasets

Management function for the various resources in a Big Data environment

Administration and registration of security concepts in a Big Data environment.

Serialization and deserialization of proprietary datasets to standardized stored datasets

Storage function of big data sets.

Visualisation of query and analytics results to data scientists and end users.

Functionality to design workflows to automatically perform transformations and cleaning of datasets.