Although the term Big Data has become popular, there is no general consensus about what it really means. Often, many professional data analysts would imply the process of Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) for large datasets as the connotation of Big Data. A popular description of Big Data is based on three attributes of data: volume, velocity, and variety (or 3Vs). Nevertheless, it does...

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