Ruby, R, Perl, Processing, Hadoop, etc... When I say big data sets, I'm normally talking in at least the millions, if not several billion rows. I've got grad

Ruby, R, Perl, Processing, Hadoop, etc... When I say big data sets, I'm normally talking in at least the millions, if not several billion rows. I've got grad student friends who strain to deal with their 'huge' (10,000 row) datasets for weeks in Excel.