摘要：Developing in Big Data applications become very important in the last few years, many organizations and industries are aware that data analysis is becoming an important factor to be more competitive and discover new trends and insights. Data ingestion and preparation step is the starting point for developing any Big Data project. This paper is a review for some of the most widely used Big Data ingestion and preparation tools, it discusses the main features, advantages and usage for each tool. The purpose of this paper is to help users to select the right ingestion and preparation tool according to their needs and applications' requirements.
关键词：big data; Hadoop; HDFS; data ingestion; data preparation
