CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2013/ch1 1w47 ka

Introduction to Big Data

With the increasing data size it becomes difficult to store the data in relational databases and also processing the data become very time consuming. Even if it is feasible to store the data on multiple servers, it becomes difficult to visualize the data all together since it is spread over multiple servers. Hence there arises a need of storing and retrieving huge amount of data effectively which involves massive parallel processing to fetch a huge amount of data