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So Big Data

… a different perspective.

We are fortunate to see the technological change (limiting myself to software) in front of our eyes. It's so wonderful that each change in technology brings with it sophistication and features, and which in turn help the developer community to transform an idea into reality.

On the other hand these technologies/framework also has a name, and when you hear it for the first time in your wildest guess you will not understand what it's all about. "Pascal" it sounds like a name, "Cobol", "Foxpro"; well not sure what these can be and out of the many terms, the best of the lot is "C"; it's not even a word. This trend didn't change with today's languages and technologies as well. "Java", "C#", "Cocoa" to name a few. And according to me we also have a contender here too, "Ruby on Rails", it sounds like a story.

There can be others, but for the first time we can hear a buzz called "Big Data". And to our surprise you do not have to wonder with the query "Now, what's this new baby?". It talks about huge, big, simply lots of data and it's name speaks the same.

The closest I could dare to explain "Big Data" would be "It's a datset so big and complex that it becomes difficult to process, analyse, visualise using available database management tools"

This data originates from many sources including the digital footprints of each individual connected to the vast world by some means or the other. This majorly includes his/her interaction with TV, Mobile, Purchase Medium, Internet including likes/unlikes in social media domain and many more.

Companies has already started investing on "Big Data" by providing solutions to curb this problem. Microsoft with SQL Server 2012 and HDInsight is 100% Apache compatible "Hadoop" distribution. Also, IBM is doing significant work on this as well focussing on "volume", velocity" & "variety" of Big Data.

One thing for sure, whatever we do will all stay preserver for future,  to analyze and predict.

keep exploring ...

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