Comprehensive analysis of big data variety landscape

Big data presents a remarkable opportunity for organisations to obtain critical intelligence to drive decisions and obtain insights as never before. However, big data generates high network traffic. Moreover, the continuous growth in the variety of network traffic due to big data variety has rendered the network to be one of the key big data challenges. In this article, we present a comprehensive analysis of big data variety and its adverse effects on the network performance. We present taxonomy of big data variety and discuss various dimensions of the big data variety features. We also discuss how the features influence the interconnection network requirements. Finally, we discuss some of the challenges each big data variety dimension presents and possible approach to address them.