Some advantages should we face analyzing Small Data versus Big data.
| Properties | BIG DATA (comunities) | SMALL DATA from wearables/person |
| VOLUMEN | Terabytes to Pentabytes | Megabytes. |
| VARIETY | Data in many forms (structured, unstructured, text, multimedia) | Structured and/or multimedia |
| VELOCITY | Mostly data stored & pre-procesed. | Data in motion (streaming data to make decision in accordance) |
| VERACITY | Data uncertainty ( reliability & predictability of imprecise data types) | Data certain, coming from one user and one device (range limited and data correlated) |
Velocity is therefore the only bottle -neck and parallel processing for one or several devices/person that have to be correlated an essential demand.
The network that will take care of managing SMALL DATA, the so-called FOG is going to behave as an intelligent hospital not considering on it the Operating Room.
But as we defined Small Data belongs to the user and he/she is the one that could allow to share part or some for a specific reason. Not a minor issue considering that this data is now demanded in court trials.
