3 ms·

You know, "billions a day" is only on the order of 10K per second. A single machine can handle that.

• monsieurbanana 8y ago
  That would be amazing, wouldn't it? It's not true though, the problem with dealing with billion of operations a day is the spikes, most of the time you don't get a nice homogene rate for 24 hours straight.
  • fwip 8y ago
    Depends on how much latency matters. A lot of big data is batch processing, for which if the data is 3 hours old that's more than good enough.
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