> "somebody, somewhere, is doing stream processing of TB-sized JSON objects"

That's crazy to think about. My JSON files can be measured in bytes. :-D

Well obviously that would happen mostly only on the biggest business scales or maybe academic research; one example from Nvidia, which showcases Apache Spark with GPU acceleration to process "tens of terabytes of JSON data":

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-json-processi...