The Big Data dimensional paradigm
To begin with, in simple terms, Big Data helps us deal with the three Vs: volume, velocity, and variety. Recently, two more Vs—veracity and value—were added to it, making it a five-dimensional paradigm:
- Volume: This dimension refers to the amount of data. Look around you; huge amounts of data are being generated every second—it may be the e-mail you send, Twitter, Facebook, other social media, or it can just be all the videos, pictures, SMS, call records, or data from various devices and sensors. We have scaled up the data measuring metrics to terabytes, zettabytes and vronobytes—they are all humongous figures. Look at Facebook, it has around 10 billion messages each day; consolidated across all users, we have ...
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