CmonDev put it nicely. Buzzword. Same when you hear, most of the time, how someone is leveraging Hadoop for whatever.
There are various definitions of what is big data. I like to think of it as whenever the only way to deal with your data is by doing full table scans, then we're in same domain of thinking of big data.
There are various definitions of what is big data. I like to think of it as whenever the only way to deal with your data is by doing full table scans, then we're in same domain of thinking of big data.