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"said it got too cumbersome once the size of the data reached a few petabytes." I dont think there's a lot of companies where data would reach this huge. Anyon

• jamesaguilar 12y ago
  What do you mean, warehousing? Like, item tracking inside an actual warehouse? Hard to imagine spending more than a kB per unique item -- more per SKU, but less per individual object -- so even if you have 1M items being tracked, the total size would only be a gigabyte. Even if you had a billion unique things in your store, the resulting database would still fit on a single flash drive.
  • seanp2k2 12y ago
    Given the context, it seems like "warehouse" in parent's comment was more specifically "data warehouse": http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_warehouse http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_warehouse While I couldn't quickly find anything that speaks to any kind of average or normal size of a data warehouse, this article mentions Facebook's being around 300PB: https://code.facebook.com/posts/229861827208629/scaling-the-facebook-data-warehouse-to-300-pb/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/229861827208629/scaling-the-...
• frozenport 12y ago
  Its about what they need and not what other companies need.