BIG DATA – DATA DRIVEN AGE

WHAT IS BIG DATA?

Big data refers to a very large amount of data which cannot be handled by traditional data processing softwares. The data in Petabytes is called big data.

TYPES OF BIG DATA

•            Structured Data – Example: Data stored in a database
•     Unstructured Data – Example : Video
•     Semi-Structured Data – Example: XML  files

 BIG DATA TOOLS

•     APACHE Spark
•     APACHE Hive
•     APACHE Kafka
•            APACHE Hadoop

CHARACTERISTICS OF BIG DATA

VELOCITY – It refers to the speed at which the data is being processed.

VARIETY – It refers to the different types of data.

VOLUME – It refers to the size of the data.

VERACITY – It refers to the correctness of the data.

VALUE – It refers to discovering the patterns from the data.