Big Data is whatever you want it to be. For the VC blowhards around here, it is happiness, wealth, a solution to world hunger, and a bikini model with DDD boobs

Big Data is whatever you want it to be. For the VC blowhards around here, it is happiness, wealth, a solution to world hunger, and a bikini model with DDD boobs that loves old nerds and doesn't get them thrown in jail for drug trafficking. But for people who actually work with it regularly, it is typically a constraint that manifests itself in the form of impatience. I could process petabytes of data using AWK, but if I can't wait that long, I will end up using Cascalog on a cluster.