Big data requirements in current and next fusion research experiments

The present and future data management requirements for fusion experiments are presented along with the currently adopted solutions. Even if the presented solution fulfil the requirements of the current experiments, the next generation fusion devices are likely to produce/require an unpreceded amount of data. For this reason, the solutions adopted nowadays, and also foreseen for the experiments under construction, might prove not enough scalable. Information Technology already provides efficient solutions for big data management, successfully employed for large cloud applications and social media. In particular, MongoDB, Cassandra and Hadoop represent promising candidates for the next generation experiments because their combined usage covers the specific data requirements for fusion research.