Big data
The amount of data that's being created and stored on a global level is almost inconceivable, and it just keeps growing. Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data—both structured and unstructured. Let's now delve deeper into big data, beginning with the challenges of big data.
Challenges of big data
Big data is characterized by three challenges. They are as follows:
- The volume of the data
- The velocity of the data
- The variety of the data
Data volume
The volume problem can be approached from three different directions: efficiency, scalability, and parallelism. Efficiency is about minimizing the time it takes for an algorithm to process a unit of information. A component of this is the underlying processing power of the hardware. ...
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