2022 Trends in Big Data: The Data Marketplace Evolution

In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper discusses 2022 trends in big data, data meshes, and composability. As 2022 beckons, the big data ecosystem finds itself in a transitional state of flux that may very well redefine everything you know—or thought you knew—about it. The cloud is still its unambiguous centerpiece, but is moving ever closer to the edge. Artificial Intelligence is still its media darling, but may soon yield that spot to quantum computing. Data fabrics are more prevalent than ever, but so is the rise of the data mesh concept.