BigData (and Hadoop) are buzzword and growth areas of computing; this article will distill the concepts into easy-to-understand terms.
As the name implies, BigData is literally «big data» or «lots of data» that needs to be processed. Lets take a simple example: the city council of San Francisco is required to take a census of its population – literally how many people live at each address. There are city employees who are employed to count the residents. The city of Los Angeles has a similar requirement.