Big Data Warehouse (BDW). A BDW can be defined as a scalable, highly performant, and flexible storage and processing system, capable of dealing with the ever-increasing volume, variety, and velocity of data, i.e., Big Data, while lowering the costs of traditional Data Warehousing architectures through the use of commodity hardware. Big Data imposes severe difficulties for traditional data storage and processing technologies, and the BDW aims to overcome these challenges and support near real-time descriptive and predictive Big Data Analytics over huge amounts of heterogeneous data (Krishnan 2013; Russom 2016; Costa et al. 2017; Santos et al. 2017).
Smart Industry. A Smart Industry can be seen as an organization chain from any industrial sector (e.g., manufacturing, services) with high digitalization levels, which supports the replication of the physical world into a virtual world, through an environment that is highly connected...