Introducing analysis

As mentioned in Chapter 1, Introduction to Efficient Indexing, a huge scale of data is produced at any moment in today's world of information technologies on various platforms, such as social media and medium and large-sized companies, which provide services in communication, health, security, and any other areas. Moreover, initially, such data is in an unstructured form.

We can see that this point of view on the big data takes into account three basic needs/concerns/forms:

• Recording of data by high performance

• Accessing of data by high performance

• Analyzing of data

Big data solutions are mostly related to the aforementioned three basic needs.

Data should be recorded with high performance in order that data can be accessed with fully high performance benefits; however, it is not enough alone. To get the real meaning of data, data must be analyzed.

Thanks to data analysis, the well-established search engines like Google and many social media platforms like Facebook/Twitter are...