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I always define big data as, too big for excel spreadsheets.
by johnrgrace 14y ago
I always define big data as, too big for excel spreadsheets.
- rm999 14y agoI don't like that definition because Excel as software hasn't scaled with computer hardware. Excel isn't a database, and isn't designed to be one. To put it into perspective, people were working with 1M+ record datasets in the 1990s. I tried loading a 300k record file in Excel 2010 the other day and it crashed.
- nivertech 14y agoThere is MPI add-on for Excel, which allow to work with huge spreadsheets on HPC clusters, developed originally for some Swiss Investment bank. So Excel does scale.