On Access Control Schemes for Hadoop Data Storage

Hadoop is a distributed Big Data storage and processing framework hugely adopted in different sectors from online media, education, government and social media to handle the enormous growth of information in their respective domains. However, the core architecture of the solution is based on a trusted cluster. It lacks native methods for protecting sensitive data that cross over enterprises and are exposed or accessed illegally. In this paper, propose an access control scheme for data stored in Hadoop, based on concepts from BitTorrent and the secure sharing storage over the cloud. The proposed schemes can impose access control for data owners, and prevent unauthorized access and illegal authorization.