Tag: Streams

Every day we hear about Big Data, IoT, Smart Data, Machine Learning, semantic data, etc. Many times out of context or simply used because they’re “trendy”.

One of the best examples is “Big Data”, where we always talk about huge amounts of information, systems, platforms, queries, but with the error, from my point of view, of taking that as information, no, no it’s not information, they’re data, raw data or processed data, information is what is extracted from that data. Many times, with the term “Big Data”, we get lost in only the part of storing huge amounts of data, replicated and in astronomical volumes. That’s not “Big Data”, that’s only talking about one part, the most mechanical one, and the one that contributes least to what we’re looking for “Information”, it’s only “data storage and management”, one leg of a much broader table.