Challenges in testing big data applications

(In this SmartBits, Arun Krishnan outlines “Challenges in testing big-data applications“

The Three V's Volume, Velocity and Variety actually depends on who you are. There are 4V’s and 5V’s as well. Some of the definitions around Big Data are volume, variety, velocity but in a true sense all these are relative.
There are people who say 1TB of data and above is Big Data. The best definition as of today is one bit more data than your system can handle. If there is a system with 8 GB of memory and there are 8 GB and 1 bit of data if this can’t be loaded into memory that is the Big data and then it needs to be broken into chunks.

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