Big Data Analytics is intended for use as a textbook for third- and fourth-year students of B.E., B.Tech., B.Sc., BCA, MCA, and M.Tech. courses in IT, Software, and Computer Science Engineering. The book has been written to help students who enter the software industry to gain a broad understanding of Big Data and the nuances of handling it to extract useful information. Spread across 21 chapters, it elucidates the concept of Big Data and walks the reader through popular frameworks such as Hadoop, MongoDB, Pig and Hive that are used for processing Big Data. The book will also benefit professionals, at all levels, who seek transition to the software field.