> you don't need a big data architecture when you get 20GB of data/year Probably no even if it's 50x that at 1TB/year, unless it's in very small chunks and/or

> you don't need a big data architecture when you get 20GB of data/year Probably no even if it's 50x that at 1TB/year, unless it's in very small chunks and/or requires an outsized amount of (possibly realtime) processing. Current commodity servers will scale up to 12TiB of main memory, and if you're willing to use previous generation CPUs, those servers can twice the RAM (24TiB). Under half a megabuck without storage.