BEANS - a software package for distributed Big Data analysis

TL;DR

BEANS is a web-based software tool designed for distributed storage, analysis, and visualization of large-scale data, simplifying complex data handling in astronomy and other fields.

Contribution

It introduces a versatile, easy-to-install platform for distributed data analysis that can be applied across various research domains beyond astronomy.

Findings

Supports querying, filtering, and plotting large datasets

Facilitates comparison of simulations with observational data

Offers a user-friendly interface for big data analysis

Abstract

BEANS software is a web based, easy to install and maintain, new tool to store and analyse data in a distributed way for a massive amount of data. It provides a clear interface for querying, filtering, aggregating, and plotting data from an arbitrary number of datasets. Its main purpose is to simplify the process of storing, examining and finding new relations in the so-called Big Data. Creation of BEANS software is an answer to the growing needs of the astronomical community to have a versatile tool to store, analyse and compare the complex astrophysical numerical simulations with observations (e.g. simulations of the Galaxy or star clusters with the Gaia archive). However, this software was built in a general form and it is ready to use in any other research field or open source software.