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can create economic value if properly utilized.

So, basically just like its name Big Data is widespread with umpteen large avenues.

Big Data Means Hadoop

Technology is ever-evolving!

Google derived Hadoop which is an Apache open-source software framework for working with Big data. Later it was practiced by all the tech resources in the industry.

Although Hadoop has taken the lead in the market, but Big Data is too varied and complex for a one-size-fits-all-solution. There are other two classes of technologies best suited to optimize and mine the data. The other two classes are NoSQL and Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data stores.

Hadoop includes a number of components that were specifically designed to store, analyse and retrieve Big Data. Some of the components of Hadoop can be replaced with other technologies that is best suitable as per the user’s needs.

Courtesy: IDC, Radicatti Group, Facebook, TR Research, Pow Internet

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