Big Data is all the rage these days, as are its constituent technologies like Hadoop, NoSQL, and the mystical discipline of data science. But it turns out that understanding of, and a consensus ...

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By Svetlana Sicular Gartner, Inc. Volume, velocity and variety characteristics of information assets are not three parts of Gartner’s definition of big data, it is part one, and oftentimes ...

The where and what. The easiest example of "big data" is one that everyone reading this article is familiar with—Google’s search. It works so quickly and so reliably that it’s rare to spare ...

News. The Evolving Definition of 'Big Data' By John K. Waters; 04/10/2012; While there's lots of talk about big data these days (a lot of talk), there currently is no good, authoritative definition of ...