Comment by varispeed
1 day ago
Until thumb drives became large enough to fit most datasets it stopped becoming Big Data. Just normal data.
1 day ago
Until thumb drives became large enough to fit most datasets it stopped becoming Big Data. Just normal data.
We have thumb drives that can store petabytes of data?
Or did you mean the "big data" crowd which thought 500GB was noteworthy? I don't think anyone took those serious, neither in 2010s nor now. That was always "small" data
My rule of thumb was "can it fit in RAM on a server?" If it can, then it's not big data.
500GB is in the "fits" category.
You can quadruple that and could still fit in server RAM
Most companies using term "big data" had datasets in TB region. One company I had a gig at had full Hadoop cluster setup and their whole dataset was 40GB. Their marketing had all the big data adjacent keywords over the brochures for clients.
That's a decent quality 3 hours movie :D
> We have thumb drives that can store petabytes of data
We do?
It was a question that you've edited out the punctuation. You're asking the exact same thing as the person you've replied
Please provide a link.
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To some degree IMO big data is still a mindset when it might take a day to process your data in a normal SQL query. Some tech doesn't scale to the data size for all use cases, and you need different solutions.