Buck Woody explains that “Big Data” is just data:
A few years ago it was all the rage to talk about “Big Data”. Lots of descriptions of “Big Data” popped up, including the “V’s” (Variety, Velocity, Volume, etc.) that proved very helpful. I even have my own definition:
Big Data is any data you can’t process
in the time you want
with the systems you have
This post is quite reasonable in its depiction of the problem. I extend it a bit further than that and talk about difficulty of processing the data. Nonetheless, read Buck’s full thoughts and check out the Big Data Clusters workshop.