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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...

What is Data? The quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, which may be stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media. What is Big Data? Big Data is also data but with a huge size. Big Data is a term used to describe a collection of data that is huge in volume and yet growing exponentially with time. In short such data is so large and complex that none of the traditional data management tools are able to store it or process it efficiently. Examples Of Big Data Following are some the examples of Big Data- The New York Stock Exchange generates about one terabyte of new trade data per day. Social Media The statistic shows that 500+terabytes of new data get ingested into the databases of social media site Facebook, every day. This data is mainly generated in terms of photo and video uploads, message exchanges, putting comments etc. A s...