“Any amount of data that’s too big to be handled by one computer.” John Rauser cited 5/2012 at.

Scientific data from sensors can reach mammoth proportions over time, and Big Data also includes unstructured text posted on the Web, such as blogs and social media.” Cited from the pcmag encyclopedia Big Data includes business transactions, e-mail messages, photos, surveillance videos and activity logs (see machine-generated data). “Big Data refers to the massive amounts of data that collect over time that are difficult to analyze and handle using common database management tools.“The definition of big data refers to groups of data that are so large and unwieldy that regular database management tools have difficulty capturing, storing, sharing and managing the information.” Cited from.“The definition of big data? “Who cares? It’s what you’re doing with it,”” Cited from 3/2013 FCW article, quoting Bill Franks.

“An easily scalable system of unstructured data with accompanying tools that can efficiently pull structured datasets.” Cited from a 4/2013 post on the FCW Blog.

“We can safely say that Big Data is about the technologies and practice of handling data sets so large that conventional database management systems cannot handle them efficiently, and sometimes cannot handle them at all.” Cited from 1/2012 ZDNet Blog by Andrew Brust.

“Big data is the term increasingly used to describe the process of applying serious computing power – the latest in machine learning and artificial intelligence – to seriously massive and often highly complex sets of information.” Cited from 4/2013 the Microsoft Enterprise Insight Blog.

The challenges include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing, transfer, analysis, and visualization.” Cited from Wikipedia

“Big data is a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications.

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