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the advancement of data in the last 10 years has been enormous; this gave rise to a term 'big data'. there is no fixed size of data, which you can call as big data; any data that your traditional system (rdbms) is not able to handle is big data. this big data can be in structured, semi-structured or un-structured format. initially, there were three dimensions to data − volume, velocity, variety. the dimensions have now gone beyond just the three vs. we have now added other vs − veracity, validity, vulnerability, value, variability, etc.

big data led to the emergence of multiple tools and frameworks that help in the storage and processing of data. there are a few popular big data frameworks such as hadoop, spark, hive, pig, storm and zookeeper. it also gave opportunity to create next gen products in multiple domains like healthcare, finance, retail, e-commerce and more.

whether it is an mnc or a start-up, everyone is leveraging big data to store and process it and take smarter decisions.

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