An Introduction to Bigdata and Its Applications

Big data refers to a large amount of data in the range of Exabytes and beyond. Big data refers to the data sets that cannot be handled using the existing traditional database management tools because their capability to store, manage and process huge data efficiently is inadequate. Big data alters the way the data are managed and used, and receive great attention from researchers all over the world. People in academics, industry and in government are equally interested in big data and its technologies. This paper gives an introduction to big data and its application. Big data has so much of applications in various fields such as agriculture, weather forecasting, healthcare, ERP, cloud computing etc. The paper highlights some of these applications.