Big Data Has Arrived – The big data concept was introduced in the late 1990s and has since been embraced by all kinds of organizations. Data can be “big” because of its sheer volume, because it is not structured in the traditional way, or because it streams in with enormous quantities. The business advantages of big data systems are clear, they can improve, deepen, and strengthen an organization’s analytical capabilities enabling them to improve their business and decision-making processes.
In the beginning, most SQL products were not optimized to handle big data workloads. Therefore, to store, process, and analyze big data, many organizations selected big data storage platforms that were designed and optimized to work with big data.
