Big data such as social media contents, an archive of high definition videos gathered via ubiquitous information-sensing devices and scientific data could be acquired and stored within an organization’s external cloud(s) and distribution retrieved by staffs or customers via cloud services offered by the organization. The growth of cloud computing, big data, and analytics compels businesses to turn into big data-as-a-service solutions in order to overcome common challenges, such as data storage or processing power. This paper presents new and comparative performance behaviors of i-Cloud and three well-known approaches by emulating a hybrid cloud as a testing environment.