Book excerpt: This book teaches Informatica Big Data Management (BDM). Any existing Informatica Developers (PowerCenter or Informatica Platform) can leverage this book to learn BDM at a self-study peace. This book covers HDFS, Hive, Complex Files such as Avro, Parquet, JSON, & XML, BDM on Amazon AWS, BDM on Microsoft Azure ecosystems and much more. Spark execution mode including hierarchical data types and stateful variables are covered. This book covers DI on Big Data and does not cover data quality in BDM. Data Masking and Data Processor (B2B) on BDM are introduced and not covered in detail. NOTE: Purchasing this book does not entitle you for free software from Informatica. Readers should have a working Informatica BDM environment and a valid license key to execute the labs detailed within List of chapters and collateral downloads are available at Author's website: http: //keshavvadrevu.com/books/informatica-big-data-management