Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research
Vol. 5, No. 5, 2015, 850-853
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Erturk and Jyoti: Perspectives on a Big Data Application: What Database Engineers and IT Students…
Perspectives
Perspectives on a Big Data Application: What
Database Engineers and IT Students Need to Know
Emre Erturk
Senior Lecturer,
School of Computing
Eastern Institute
of Technology
Napier, New Zealand
eerturk@eit.ac.nz
Kamal Jyoti
Postgraduate Student, School of Computing
Eastern Institute of Technology
Napier, New Zealand
erkamaljyoti@gmail.com
Abstract— Cloud Computing and Big Data are important and
related current trends in the world of information technology.
They will have significant impact on the curricula of computer
engineering and information systems at universities and higher
education institutions. Learning about big data is useful for both
working database professionals and students, in accordance with
the increase in jobs requiring these skills. It is also important to
address a broad gamut of database engineering skills, i.e.
database design, installation, and operation. Therefore the
authors have investigated MongoDB, a popular application, both
from the perspective of industry retraining for database
specialists and for teaching. This paper demonstrates some
practical activities that can be done by students at the Eastern
Institute of Technology New Zealand. In addition to testing and
preparing new content for future students, this paper contributes
to the very recent and emerging academic literature in this area.
