1. A system for supporting big data in a process control plant, comprising: a unitary, logical data storage area including one or more data storage devices configured to store, using a common format, data corresponding to at least one of the process plant or a process that is controlled in the process plant, the data including multiple types of data, and a set of types of data including configuration data, continuous data, and event data corresponding to the process; and one or more data receiver computing devices configured to receive the data from one or more other devices and to cause the data to be stored in the unitary, logical data storage area.