InfoWorld’s top picks in large-scale search, SQL on Hadoop, streaming analytics, and other flavors of distributed data processing The best open source big data toolsBig data, fast data, data in tables, data that — try as it might — simply can’t maintain relationships. The problems with processing big piles of data are many and varied, and no one tool can handle it all — not even Spark. Among this year’s Bossies in big data, you’ll find the newest, best approaches to leveraging large clusters of machines for indexing and searching, graph processing, stream processing, structured queries, distributed OLAP, and machine learning. Because many processors — and lots of RAM — make light work.[ InfoWorld unveils the Bossies: The best open source products of the year. | The best open source applications. | The best open source networking and security software. | The best open source datacenter and cloud software. | The best open source application development tools. | Stay up on open source with the InfoWorld Linux report. ] Open SourceData Management