As more organizations adopt big data platforms, concern mounts that application development may suffer from the lack of good practices for managing the data powering those applications. When we talk about big data management in relation to big data platforms (like those combining commodity hardware with Hadoop), it’s clear that big data technologies have created a need for new and different data management tools and processes. Here are five things you need to know about big data management that will help ensure consistency and trust in your analytic results.