Saturday, September 7, 2013

Big Data, what is it ?

Few years ago a company needed only a traditional database system such as Oracle, mysql , MS Server , Sybase etc to smoothly run its business. Nowadays for the same company to remain competitive, there is a need to take into account not only employees , transactional records and others but online data, and more. All possible sources of information related to that particular company need to be analyzed properly. However our traditional data cannot easily store or manage these highly unstructured data. NoSql related databases enter into the play...
In short the following figure shows a view of Big Data within an organisation:

  
With the current trends, willing or not any company today aspiring to survive must join the dance. In general Big Data is a term used to describe the exponential growth and availability of both structured and unstructured data. While a properly analysis of these massive data may offer enterprises tremendous benefits, there are also risks of being overwhelmed. 
  • How can you use it to suit your need ?
  • How can you analyze it all ?
  • How do you store all these data ?
  • How do you extract intelligence from it ?
  • Do you have enough to professionals to handle and analyze it ?
 As stated by Scott Zucker : Small data is gone. Data is just going to get bigger and bigger and bigger, and people just have to think differently about how they manage it.

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