Big data technologies can be categorized as operational or analytical. Operational technologies deal with raw daily data like online transactions, while analytical technologies analyze operational data for business decisions. The document describes several examples of big data technologies categorized by data storage, mining, analytics, and visualization. Common storage technologies include Hadoop, MongoDB, and Cassandra. Data mining tools include Presto, RapidMiner, and Elasticsearch. Analytics are performed using Apache Kafka, Splunk, KNIME, Spark, and R. Popular visualization technologies are Tableau and Plotly.