  This chapter presents software architectures of the big data processing
platforms. It will provide an in-depth knowledge on resource management
techniques involved while deploying big data processing systems on cloud
environment. It starts from the very basics and gradually introduce the core
components of resource management which we have divided in multiple layers. It
covers the state-of-art practices and researches done in SLA-based resource
management with a specific focus on the job scheduling mechanisms.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing