Big data characteristics

Big data maintenance and analysis are formed by the characteristics of data, including the structure or unstructured nature of the data, which helps in obtaining more accurate results from data processing. Big data elements can be referred to as the four V's; they are represented in the following figure:

Volume

When organizations collect information over the years, it makes an extremely huge volume of data. Such huge volume a of data may be generated from user information, application-generated audit information, and any unstructured information from the online sources. Analytic tools help in choosing the right set of data to perform the analysis and in recognizing the important metrics, which are appropriate to the perspective you may want to review from that information.

From the organization's perspective, a huge volume of information can be segregated into the following types of information:

• Business identification data: Each organization performs certain business...