BIG DATA
BIG DATA What is Big Data? Big data is larger, more complex data sets, especially from new data sources. These data sets are so voluminous that traditional data processing software can’t manage them. But these massive volumes of data can be used to address business problems you wouldn’t have been able to tackle before. The History of big data Although the concept of big data itself is relatively new, the origins of large data sets go back to the 1960s and ‘70s when the world of data was just getting started with the first data centers and the development of the relational database. Around 2005, people began to realize just how much data users generated through Facebook, YouTube, and other online services. Hadoop (an open-source framework explicitly created to store and analyze big data sets) was developed that same year. NoSQL also began to gain popularity during this time. The development of open-source frameworks, such as Hadoop (and more recently, Spark) was essent...