[School-of-data] BIG data... What is BIG?

[Simon Cropper]

Hi,

I have been exploring various projects that claim to handle BIG data but 
to be honest most do not qualify what BIG actually means.

I remember the days when programs specified the maximum number of 
records, maximum number of fields and maximum number of tables in a 
database that could be manipulated at any one time. Why don't these 
types of specs get provided for languages and libraries anymore?

What are people's impression of what BIG actually means when used to 
describe large datasets?

To me BIG is millions of records and multiple linked tables.

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Cheers Simon

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