As the Big Data offers an extra competitive edge to a business over its competitors, a business can DECIDE to tap the potential of Big Data as per its requirements and streamline the various business activities as per its objectives.

So the approaches to deal with Big Data are to be determined as per your business requirements and the available budgetary provisions.

First, you have to decide the kind of business concerns you are having right now. What kind of questions you want your data to answer. What are your business objectives and how do you want to achieve them.

As far as the approaches regarding Big Data processing are concerned, we can do it in two ways:

1. BATCH processing
2. Stream processing

As per your business requirements, you can process the Big Data in batches daily or after a certain duration. If your business demands it, you can process it in streamline fashion after every hour or after every 15 seconds or so.

It all depends on your business objectives and the STRATEGIES you ADOPT.