Big Data Explained in Plain and Simple English

Big Data has been buzzing around for quite some time, but there are a lot of misconceptions surrounding it. In this post, I would try my best to explain Big Data in the simplest way I can.

What is Big Data?

Big Data refers to a huge volume of data, that cannot be stored and processed using the traditional computing approach within a given time frame.

But how huge this data needs to be? To be termed as Big Data?

There is a lot of misconception surrounding, what amount of data can be termed as Big Data.

Usually, the data which is either in gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, exabytes or anything larger than this in size is considered as Big Data.

This is where the misconception arises.

Even a small amount of data can be referred to as Big Data depending on the context it is being used.

To get more clarity on this let me make use of a few examples and explain it to you.

For example, if we try to attach a document that is of 100 megabytes in size to an…