What is big data?
In the last 10 years, the number of people accessing and using the internet has grown from a little under 2 billion to 3.7 billion to 5.3 billion as of 2022. Around two-thirds of the global population is now online.
With the number of internet users increasing, and with networks evolving, more data is being added to existing datasets each year. In 2016, global internet traffic was 1.2 zettabytes (ZB) (which is 1.2 billion terabytes (TB)) and has grown to an expected 3.6 ZB in 2022.
This enormous amount of data that is generated every year means that it is imperative that databases and data stores, in general, can scale and process our data efficiently.
The term big data was first coined in the 1980s by John Mashey (http://static.usenix.org/event/usenix99/invited_talks/mashey.pdf), and mostly came into play in the past decade with the explosive growth of the internet. Big data typically refers to datasets that are too large and complex to be processed by traditional...
