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Well, I think Teradata probably falls under the big data umbrella, given that its basically a distributed database, right? I was thinking more about just plain
by delluminatus 13y ago
Well, I think Teradata probably falls under the big data umbrella, given that its basically a distributed database, right? I was thinking more about just plain Oracle or SQL Server or whathaveyou, which can scale pretty big, big enough for 99% of companies, but not "big", and are notoriously difficult to cluster/distribute.
- ironchef 13y agoFair enough. I think the reason people struggle with classifying this stuff is because there are a lot of gray areas and it's difficult to verbalize all the details meaningfully. One could say "Oh...RDBMSes!"...but teradata is still relational...it's just distributed. "Oh! OLAP vs OLTP!"...but it's not really that either. One _could_ use teradata for a couple gig data mart just fine (and argue that it's not big data). That's why i tend to fall back to the 3 / 4 Vs that have tended to typify the 4 aspects of "big data" (volume, velocity, variety, veracity).