73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
2017
Source: Forbes
- 53 percent of companies are adopting big data analytics
- The number of IT professionals using descriptive and predictive analytics grew from the mid-40th percentile to high 60th percentile between January 2018 and January 2019.
- The big data industry will be worth an estimated $77 billion by 2023.
- 95 percent of businesses need to manage unstructured data.
- Only 7% of marketers surveyed report that they are currently effectively able to deliver real-time, data-driven marketing engagements across both physical and digital touchpoints.
- The education vertical currently has the lowest adoption of big data among vertical industries, but educators are most likely to say they may use big data in the future.
- By 2020, there will be 2.7 million job postings for data science and analytics roles.
- In the banking sector, investments in big data analytics were estimated at $20.8 billion in 2016.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- 45 percent of companies run at least some big data workloads in the cloud.
