{"id":14499,"date":"2016-04-01T16:18:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/real-time-big-data\/"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T15:37:24","slug":"real-time-big-data","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/31751\/real-time-big-data","title":{"rendered":"Real-Time Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_real-time_big_data_mean\">What Does Real-Time Big Data Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It is critical for modern and agile enterprises to extract information from operational data in real time. Thus, real-time big data extraction proves to be beneficial in boosting revenue, reducing operational costs and enhancing efficiency overall. Real-time big data has numerous advantages for enterprises. It works by helping them make well-informed decisions, unveil new opportunities and gain a new dimension of insight.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_real-time_big_data\">Techopedia Explains Real-Time Big Data<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Real-time big data is not only about storing petabytes of data in a warehouse. Real-time big data helps by enabling organizations to do something meaningful from the extracted data quickly and cost-effectively. It can help organizations detect fraud while someone is swiping a credit card or placing an order on a website. It works by combining and analyzing the data, thus allowing well-informed decisions to be made at the right time and at the right place.\n<\/p>\n<p>It governs the use of new techniques through which the analysis could be performed on large data sets. All this is possible through various software frameworks associated with real-time big data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does Real-Time Big Data Mean? 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