Agile Big Data Infrastructure - Agile Big Data Applications. Iterate Your Way to Big Data Success The technology world is rapidly changing.
No longer is it feasible to wait 2 years for analytics projects to launch into production. To successfully compete in today’s markets, insights must be available in real-time and projects must impact the bottom line in 1-2 quarters. Big data. Visualization of daily Wikipedia edits created by IBM.
At multiple terabytes in size, the text and images of Wikipedia are an example of big data. Growth of and Digitization of Global Information Storage Capacity Source. BigTable. BigTable is a compressed, high performance, and proprietary data storage system built on Google File System, Chubby Lock Service, SSTable (log-structured storage like LevelDB) and a few other Google technologies.
It is not distributed outside Google, although Google offers access to it as part of its Google App Engine. History[edit]