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by 0x457 58 days ago
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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gf000 57 days ago
You can quadruple that and could still fit in server RAM
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0x457 57 days ago
Correct, and until then it won't be "big data"
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