AbstractBig data is a collection of massive and complex data sets and data volume that include the huge quantities of data, data management capabilities, social media analytics and real-time data. Big data analytics is the process of examining large amounts of data. There exist large amounts of heterogeneous digital data. Big data is about data volume and large data set's measured in terms of terabytes or petabytes. This phenomenon is called Bigdata. After examining of Bigdata, the data has been launched as Big Data analytics. In this paper, presenting the 5Vs characteristics of big data and the technique and technology used to handle big data.The challenges include capturing, analysis, storage, searching, sharing, visualization, transferri...