Big data is defined according to the three Vs – volume, velocity, and variety. With Big Data, you process, handle and analyze diverse data sources from business transactions to social media and other information. These data are dealt at an unprecedented speed and timely manner. It can come in various types of format, may it be unstructured text documents, emails, video, financial transactions or to those structured numeric data in traditional databases. Although gathering and analyzing Big Data can be quite challenging, more and more IT professionals are pursuing this…