Comment by pjmlp

Back when I was working for telecommunications (long time ago), operators had GB of data coming out of network elements all back into the network management systems.

That data was handled pretty well with Oracle OLAP in HP-UX servers.

I don't work with big data, but get to see some of the RFPs we get, and most of them are in the scenario of 2016 laptop being able to process the data.