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Storing data and using data are two completely different things. You can store all of FB and lots of other companies in a fairly small volume these days. But as
by tisme 14y ago
Storing data and using data are two completely different things. You can store all of FB and lots of other companies in a fairly small volume these days. But as soon as you want to access that data to process or update it the game changes rapidly. Suddenly that one cabinet explodes into a datacenter full of cabinets, or even several data centers.
Storage is a solved problem for just about any amount that an ordinary company might need. Getting that data delivered to a CPU at speeds that are still usable in a practical sense if you want to say something about all of that data is a completely unrelated problem which changes amount of technology and funds required from the easy level to the extremely hard and beyond level.
- ChuckMcM 14y ago"Storing data and using data are two completely different things." That is so true. When people ask "How hard can it really be to write a search engine these days?" I have been known to ask them to speculate on how they might go about it and then point out the challenges of knowing what data you have vs what data is asked for. Search is particularly interesting because the more time you spend the better your answer can be, and its always challenging to 'draw the line' between fast and relevant. But that is also what makes it so fun :-)