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This is just crazy. According to the article, this "big data" fits in 27 DVDs, which is roughly 1-2 TB of data. Do you really need Big Query or whatever for thi
by boomzilla 13y ago
This is just crazy. According to the article, this "big data" fits in 27 DVDs, which is roughly 1-2 TB of data. Do you really need Big Query or whatever for this?
- Zirro 13y agoAccording to Wikipedia, DVDs of the largest capacity can hold 17.08 GB of data, but those are rare. If the article is correct about these details, the data could be ~460 GB at most, but is likely less than half of that if the DVDs in question were of normal capacity.
- yapcguy 13y ago50 x 50GB blu-ray discs, for over 2TB of storage, only costs $126 at Amazon. A 2TB portable USB drive costs $100. But no, let's just upload everything to Google Drive.
- fixermark 13y agoI would assume it's not about storage; it's about processing. The bold byline of BigQuery (https://developers.google.com/bigquery/ https://developers.google.com/bigquery/) is "Analyze terabytes of data in seconds." Store the data locally? Easily. Set up the necessary back-end infrastructure to sift, twist, and churn the data efficiently? Now you're talking hiring some people to set up an infrastructure for that... Or you could upload it to Google and use their infrastructure.