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Big Data: Overview

Other Computer Science 2014-04-17 v1

Abstract

Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of traditional databases. The data is too big to be processed by a single machine. New and innovative methods are required to process and store such large volumes of data. This paper provides an overview on big data, its importance in our live and some technologies to handle big data.

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@article{arxiv.1404.4136,
  title  = {Big Data: Overview},
  author = {Richa Gupta and Sunny Gupta and Anuradha Singhal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.4136},
  year   = {2014}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure

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