The technological advances in storage, processing, and analysis of Big Data include (a) the rapidly decreasing cost of storage and CPU power in recent years; (b) the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of datacenters and cloud computing for elastic computation and storage; and (c) the development of new frameworks such as Hadoop, which allow users to take advantage of these distributed computing systems storing large quantities of data through flexible parallel processing. These advances have created several differences between traditional analytics and Big Data analytics.