eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Computer Sciences and Applications 2328-725X 2015-12-30 3 6 137 142 10.12691/jcsa-3-6-6 JCSA2015366 article Smaranika Mohapatra smaranikka.88@gmail.com 1 Jharana Paikaray 1 Neelamani Samal 1 Department of Computer Science & Engg, Gandhi Institute for Education & Technology, Bhubaneswar-752060, Odisha, India In recent years, accompanied by lower prices of information and communications technology (ICT) equipment and networks, various items of data gleaned from the real world have come to be accumulated in cloud data centers. There are increasing hopes that analysis of this massive amount of data will provide insight that is valuable to both businesses and society. Since tens of terabytes (TBs) or tens of petabytes (PBs) of data, big data, should be handled to make full use of it, there needs to be a new type of technology different from ordinary ICT. It revolves around different areas of analytics and Big Data. Through a detailed survey, we identify possible gaps in technology and provide recommendations for the research community on future directions on Cloud-supported Big Data computing and analytics solutions. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jcsa/3/6/6/jcsa-3-6-6.pdf big data cloud computing analytics data management