Types of data in the enterprise

The following section details the enterprise-centric view of data and its relevance to the Big Data processing stack as depicted in the following diagram:

Types of data in the enterprise

Data Variety in the enterprise

The following is an explanation of various categories of high-volume data:

  • Legacy data: This data type includes data from all legacy systems and applications, encompassing the structured and semi-structured formats of data stored online or offline. There are lots of use cases for data types—seismic data, hurricane data, census data, urban planning data, and socioeconomic data. These types can be ingested into Hadoop and combined with ...

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