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Big Data

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Big data is a high volume of data — structured, semistructured, or unstructured — at scales traditional databases and storage cannot handle, forcing new software and hardware approaches.

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Streams of posts, video hours, and downloads accumulate past what single systems were built for.

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The term marks a breaking point, not a brand.