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We have discussed What Big Data is with our previous blog if you have not read yet and you do not have knowledge as What Big Data is just click and What is Big Data and go through it once and understand it. Now let's discuss about more about Big Data: Characteristics Of Big Data Volume: The name Big Data itself is related to a size which is enormous. Size of data plays a very crucial role in determining value out of data. Also, whether a particular data can actually be considered as a Big Data or not, is dependent upon the volume of data. Hence,  'Volume'  is one characteristic which needs to be considered while dealing with Big Data. Variety: The next aspect of Big Data is its  variety . Variety refers to heterogeneous sources and the nature of data, both structured and unstructured. During earlier days, spreadsheets and databases were the only sources of data considered by most of the applications. Nowadays, data in the form of emails, photos, video...

Microsoft Azure – A Brief Introduction Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing infrastructure and platform designed to build, deploy and manage different applications and services through a giant network of data centres managed by Microsoft. It was launched in February 1st, 2010 as Windows Azure which was later renamed to Microsoft Azure on 25th March 2014. Apart from providing services like SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, it supports many other programming languages, frameworks and tools which could include third-party systems as well. Deployment Models of Microsoft Azure Azure offers two deployment models for cloud resources: Classic Deployment Model – Here each resource of Microsoft Azure was managed individually. The resources could be SQL Database, virtual machine, etc. Azure Resource Manager – Here the users can create different groups for related utilities in order to deploy, manage and monitor the closely coupled resources. Services offered with Microsoft Azure Fea...

AWS Lambda AWS Lambda is one of the computing services provided by AWS, which is event-driven and serverless. It is a stateless serverless system that helps us run our background tasks in the most efficient manner possible. Benefits of AWS Lambda AWS Lambda provides us the following benefits: Due to its serverless architecture, no need to provision or manage servers No need to set up any virtual machine (VM) Lambda tasks need not to be registered like Amazon SWF activity types. We can use any existing Lambda functions that you’ve already defined in workflows. Lambda functions are called directly by Amazon SWF; there is no need design a program to implement and execute them. Lambda provides us the metrics and logs for tracking function executions. Allows developers to run and execute codes in response to events without the need for building any infrastructure Pay as you go : Just pay for the compute time taken, only when the code runs. Also, pay only for the used ...