What is Big Data ?


Big Data

The expression Big Data is used for describing  the collection of large and complex data set such that it is difficult to capture ,store search, process and analyze this kind of data using conventional data base management tools and traditional data base management systems.


Here question would be  where dose big data come from ? Where from big data originates?  What makes the Big Data?

Basically the data coming from everywhere like
  • Cell Phone GPS signals
  • Purchase Transaction record
  • GPS Trails
  • Traffic Records
  • Government Document scanning
  • Microphone
  • Software Logs
  • Cameras
  • Sensor used to gather weather information   
  • Blogs post and social media sites
  • Digital videos and pictures
  • Data from search engines 
  • etc .. . .
All these together make the data Big I mean  " Big Data".


  • Big data Includes both types of data
              1- Structured Data
              2- Unstructured Data
  • If we look current trend everyday we create 2.5 Quintilian bytes of data. More than 90% of big data alone has been created in last two years. Big data is normally measured in exabytes and petabytes.
  • Big Data requires "gigantic parallel running software on tens ,hundreds and even on thousands of distributed servers " .Big data difficult to handle with relational data base management systems ,desktop statistics  and  visualization packages.Big Data analytic is really a massive task to be done.
  • Making your business more agile and to solve the quires of business which are beyond considerations, big data gives you the opportunity of finding insight in new and emerging types of data and content.It reveals the hidden facts. 



Thanks for reading the information about big Data on my blog, Don't forget to share this content to others ! Next I will write "What is Big Data Analytics ?"

Big Data Analytics

Welcome to BigDataAnalytics. I will soon write my experience about big data.Hopefully I will learn and teach about Big Data Analytics here.