Big Data, as the name suggests, is about data that is BIG in nature. The data is BIG in terms of size, and it is difficult to manage such enormous data with relational database management systems that are quite popular these days.
Let us start with a very interesting quote for Big Data.
Decoding the human genome originally took 10 years to process; now it can be achieved in one week – The Economist.
This blog post is written in response to the T-SQL Tuesday post of The Big Data. This is a very interesting subject. Data is growing every single day. I remember my first computer which had 1 GB of the Hard Drive. I had told my dad that I will never need any more hard drive, we are good for next 10 years. I bought much larger Harddrive over 2 years and today I have a NAS at home, which can hold 2 TB and have few file hosting in the cloud as well. Well the point is, the amount of the data any individual deals with has increased significantly.