Introduction to Big Data

June 12th, 2014 | Posted by Vidya Vrat in Database

Data is a precious thing because they last longer than systems – Tim Barnes Lee

Introduction

Big Data, as the name implies, is a collection of huge amounts of data. Data has always been important to mankind and society by various means. But in the past few years data has been collected and used for a variety of purposes. The major factor that differs Big Data from normal data in a DBMS or RDBMS is that Big Data is very large volume, it has no defined structure, it includes a lot of data that is being created from various channels like emails or social media like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on.

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