Abstract

In this era of information explosion, there has been a continuous growth in amount of data which are generally\ngenerated via social media, Internet of Things, may be in either structured or unstructured format which are referred as term\n“big data”. The most common challenges and opportunities arising is storage of data, developing an application for analyzing\nbig data efficiently, and to design an appropriate mining algorithm to extract knowledge from big data. The aim of this paper\nis to give a brief introduction about the evolution and characteristics of big data followed with major issues and challenges of\nbig data with some of the domain-specific areas such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, deep learning and data mining.