Big Data Characteristics-Volume,Velocity,Variety

2. Name Symbol Value
Kilobyte KB 103
Megabytes MB 106
Gigabytes GB 109
Terabytes TB 1012
Petabytes PB 1015
Exabytes EB 1018
Zettabytes ZB 1021
Yottabytes YB 1024

3. What is Big Data ?
“Big data is a broad term for data sets so large or complex
that traditional data processing applications are inadequate.”

4. Difficult to process by traditional systems
11 GB
Document
Unable
to send
100 TB
Video
Unable
to edit
100 GB
Image
Unable
to View
Depends on capability of system

5. Organization Specific
Company1 Company2
500 TB
text,audio,video data
per day
Big
Data
Not
Big
Data
Depends on
capabilities
Of the
organization

7. Big Data Characteristics
Volume
• The data results
into large files
Velocity
• The data
come at high
speed
Variety
• The file come
in various
formats

8. Volume – Data Size
40 Zettabytes (1021) of data is predicated to be
created by 2020.
6 Billion people have cell phones.
2.5 Quintillion bytes (1018) of data are created
every day.
100 terabytes (1012) of data (at least) is stored by
most U.S. companies.

9. Velocity– Streaming Speeds
1 Terabytes (1012) of trade information is
exchanged during every trading session at the
New York Stock Exchange.
100 sensors (approximately) are installed in
modern cars to monitor fuel level , tire pressure
etc.
18.9 Billion network connections are predicted
to exist by 2016.

10. Variety – Data Formats
 More than 4 Billion (1021) hours each month are used in
watching YouTube.
 30 Billion contents are exchanged every month on
Facebook.
 200 Million monthly active users exchange 400 million
tweets every day.
 150 Exabyte's (1021) was the estimated size of data for
health care throughout the world.

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