The discovery and integration of big data and Internet of Things (IoTs) highlight new challenges in the area of risks. This work focuses on the analysis of literature review approaches by presenting a study that includes works for resource discovery and data integration, social search engines, ranking techniques, and social graphs in order to provide a cross comparison and a preliminary evaluation study. The approaches are analyzed in order to define theoretical key requirements that could enable the utilization of social graphs towards the discovery and modeling of interconnected entities in big data and IoT scenarios.