Big data ecosystem

If you work in almost any mainstream industry today, chances are that you may have heard of some of the following terms and phrases:

• Big data
• Distributed, scalable, and elastic
• On-premise versus the cloud
• SQL versus NoSQL
• Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning

But what do all these terms and phrases actually mean, how do they all fit together, and where do you start? The aim of this section is to answer all of those questions in a clear and concise manner.