Big data: A systematic review

Abstract

Big Data has been gathering importance in the last few years, specially through bigger data generation, and, consequently, more accessible storage of said data. They are originated at social media or sensors, for example, and are stored to be transformed in useful information. The use of Big Data is becoming more common in several fields of business, mainly because it is a source of competitive differential, through the analysis of the stored data. This study has the objective of executing a systematic review towards presenting a broad vision of Big Data. Were analyzed 466 publications from 2005 until March 2016.