Were you not around for the Big Data heyday a decade ago?

varispeed 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Until thumb drives became large enough to fit most datasets it stopped becoming Big Data. Just normal data.

jmalicki 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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ffsm8 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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0x457 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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butlike 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> We have thumb drives that can store petabytes of data

We do?

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dylan604 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It was a question that you've edited out the punctuation. You're asking the exact same thing as the person you've replied

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ffsm8 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Please provide a link.

	▲	BizarroLand 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You would need 4 and change of these 245tb Kioxias to hold 1 petabyte, and an entire server grade computer to run them. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/kioxia-unvei... Or 250 of these ~$400 4tb flash drives and an insane number of dongles to connect them all: https://www.slashgear.com/1847725/largest-usb-thumb-drive-hi...

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varispeed 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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ToucanLoucan 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hell you mean a decade ago? I still see businesses running losses left right and center saying that they're gonna monetize user data, any day now.

Related "monetizing user data" seems to just mean ads. Ads on everything, forever, until the userbase gets fed up and moves to a new service that definitely won't do that, and the cycle repeats about every 3 years.