Survey on Resource Management Solutions to Speed up Processing Small Files in Hadoop Cluster

High performance data analytics is a computing paradigm involving optimal placement of data, analytics and other computational resources such that superior performance is achieved with lesser resource consumption. Resource allocation and scheduling are the two major functionalities to be addressed in Hadoop clusters to satisfy the service level agreements of users for High performance data analytics applications. Though many solutions have been proposed for optimal resource allocation and scheduling, those schemes are designed for large Hadoop files. Recently with Internet of Things (IoT) convergence with big data, there is need to process large volumes of small files whose size is lower than block size of Hadoop. This creates huge storage overhead and exhausts Hadoop clusters computational resources. This survey analyzes the existing works on resource allocation and scheduling in Hadoop clusters and their suitability for small files. The aim is to identify the problems in existing resource allocation and scheduling approaches while handling small files. Based on the problems identified, prospective solution architecture is proposed.