HISTORY OF BIG DATA

The 21 st century is characterized by the rapid advancement in the field of information technology.

IT has become an integral part of daily life as well as various other industries like: health, education, entertainment, science and technology, genetics, or business operations and these industries generate a lot of data, this can be called Big Data.

Big Data consists of large datasets that cannot be managed efficiently by the common database management systems.

These datasets range from terabytes to exabytes.

Mobile phones, credit cards, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices, and social networking platforms create huge amounts of data that may reside unutilized at unknown servers for many years.

And with the evolution of Big Data, this data can be accessed and analyzed on a regular basis to generate useful information.

“Big Data” is a relative term depending on who is discussing it. For Example, Big Data to Amazon or Google is very different from Big Data to a medium-sized insurance organization.