What is Big Data Toolkit

The Big Data Toolkit (BDT) is an Esri Professional Services solution that allows customers to aggregate, analyze, and enrich big data within their existing big data environment.

Delivered as a term subscription that includes a set of spatial analysis and data interoperability tools that work in your big data environment. BDT is delivered as a jar file and either a python whl file or a ZIP file, with an optional add on of the LMDB to deliver routing capabilities.

BDT can help data scientists and analysts enhance their big data analytics with spatial tools that take advantage of the massive computing capacity they already have.

With Big Data Toolkit, you can:

• Geospatially enable your existing big data cluster.

• Speed up your spatial analysis.

• Perform exploratory analysis with the Notebook environment capability

• Share analysis results in ArcGIS to improve decision-making.

• Use processors that package geospatial analytics libraries from Esri so they can run on your big data cluster, rather than in an ArcGIS environment.

• Read data from the sources, protocols, and formats you already use to store your data.

• Write analysis results back to your specific formats and data sinks.