Big Data Explained

Some examples of data sources that contribute to big data include social media, weather forecasting, health data, industry data, space, air traffic control, science, nuclear, and satellite data.

Big data refers to a huge amount of data that is generated at high speed and in various formats. It has five properties: volume, velocity, variety, veracity, and value.

The size representation of big data is in Petabytes or Exabytes.

<p>Unstructured data refers to data that does not have a predefined structure. It is difficult to handle because traditional software like DBMS and OLAP cannot effectively process it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some tools used to process big data include Hadoop, R, Hive, NoSQL, and search and kn.</p> Signup and view all the answers