What is Big Data? Before this lets first understand what is Data ? Data is the quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer. 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 size 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. Three types of Big Data The huge data collection can be differentiate in three different types, nothing but the mode of data collection Volume: The quantity of data being generated and stored. this is typically processed in high volumes and with unstructured data. Examples Facebook data feeds or netflix stream on a web page or a mobile application. Velocity : The speed in which the data is being generated and processed. High velocity data streams directly into the memory instead of being written ...