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Saturday 23 February 2013

What is "Big Data" means topic for IT field


Big data is a term used to describe the voluminous(Occupying or containing much space; large in volume, in particular )amount of unstructured and semi-structured data a company organization  creates -- data that  takes too much of time and cost to load  a relational database for analysis and implement. Although Big data is not refer to specific quantity of data.

Moto for looking at big data is to discover and invent repeatable business patterns. It’s mainly accepted that unstructured data, most of it located in text files and we all know what is text file is , accounts for at least 80% of an organization’s data. If left unmanaged, the sheer(extra ordinary)  volume of unstructured data that is generated  yearly within an enterprise or organization  can be costly in terms of storage of Data. Unmanaged data can also pose a liability if information cannot be located.
Big data is often associated with cloud computing because the analysis of large data world  in real-time requires a framework like MapReduce to distribute the work among tens, hundreds or even thousands of computers. 


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