How Big is Big – Tall, Grande, Venti Data?

How Big is Big?

Tall, Grande, Venti Data?

How Big is Big?

Tall, Grande, Venti Data?

Nick Burch

@Gagravarr

Nick Burch

@Gagravarr

Tall, Grande, Venti?Tall, Grande, Venti?

Different Ideas of Big

• Few machines?• Few racks?• Few datacentres?• Few continents?• 10 servers that fit in a shoebox?• Something that's too big for Excel?

“It's all just hype and buzz”“It's all just hype and buzz”

“It's all the fault of VCs”“It's all the fault of VCs”

Small Data vs On-Demand Big Data systems?Small Data vs On-Demand Big Data systems?

Who wants to be small?

• Reluctance to order a “small” coffee?• Who wants to go to a senior management

meeting, and say “we're not big data after all”?

• Different people, different sizes• Naming is important!

“It's all the fault of sales people”“It's all the fault of sales people”

Requirements!Requirements!

Requirements

• What kind of data?• What kind of queries?• How fast does it change?• How quickly do you need changes?• What scale?• What support?

Can we come up with names to help people?Can we come up with names to help people?

Nick Burch@Gagravarrnick@apache.org

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