Decoding the human genome originally took 10 years to process;
now it can be achieved in one week - The Economist. This blog
post is written in response to the T-SQL Tuesday post of The Big
Data. This is a very interesting subject. Data is growing every
single day. I remember my first computer which had 1 GB of the
Harddrive. I had told my dad that I will never need any more
hard drive, we are good for next 10 years. I bought much larger
Harddrive after 2 years and today I have NAS at home which can
hold 2 TB and have few file hosting in the cloud as well. Well
the point is, amount of the data any individual deals with has
increased significantly. There was a time of floppy drives.
Today some of the auto correct software even does not recognize
that word. However, USB drive, Pen drives and Jump drives are
common names across industry. It is race – I really do not know
where it will stop. Same way the amount of the data has grown so
wild that relational database is not able to handle the
processing of this amo