1. Volume:
TB’s and PB’s and ZB’s of data that gets created:
2. Velocity:
The speed at which information flows.
Example: 50 Million tweets per day!
(This is back in Nov. of 2010 – the number must have increased!)
3. Variety:
All types of data is now being captured which may be in structured format or not.
Example: Text from PDF’s, Emails, Social network updates, voice calls, web traffic logs, sensor data, click streams, etc
And this may be followed by other V’s like V for Value.
Conclusion:
In this blog-post, we saw Three V’s of Big Data with Example
Thanks to http://parasdoshi.com/2012/11/22/three-vs-of-big-data-with-example/
Posted by david ricketts 
