Although the development field of data analytics is not new, it has become more critical than ever as it experiences prodigious quantities of data generated by businesses, sensors, applications, and so on. Once the generated data gets stored, it can give extraordinary insights and helps not only business enterprises but also government and non-government enterprises, social communities, the economy, and much more.

In current technology trends, big data has been involved in many evolutions, from just buzzwords to crunching data from machine learning algorithms. With the exponential explosion of high velocity, high volume, high variety, and the veracity of data sources and streams (the four V's), big data has become the inevitable representative of the architectures, tools, and technologies that handle enterprises increasingly demanding requirements.

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