Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is
As some one who is currently dealing with these sort of things I can tell this article hits the nail on its head.<p>Most, heck something like 99.99% of all so-called big data I've dealt is something I wouldn't even classify as small data. I've seen data feeds in KB's sent over to be handled in as big data. It happens all the time. A simple data problem sufficient enough to be easily solved on something like a small db solution like sqlite is generally taken to 'grid' these days. It reminds me of the XML days when everything had to be XML. I mean every damn thing, these days its NoSQL and Big data.<p>People wrongly do their schema design just so that it can get into a NoSQL, then use something like Pig to generate data for it. The net result is they end up badly reinventing parts of SQL all over the place. If only they understand a little SQL and why its exists they can save themselves all that pointless complexity they get into. Besides avoiding to use SQL where its appropriate creates all sorts of data problems in your system. You will go endlessly reinventing ways doing things similar to what SQL offers while bloating your code. You will go reading a big part of the code, only to figure out the person actually intended to something like a nested select query albeit here very badly.<p>Besides I find much of this big data thing a total sham. Back in the yester years we would write Perl scripts to do all sorts complex data processing(With SQL of course). Heck I've run some very big analytic systems, and automation set ups in Perl to do far difficult things people do using 'Big data tools' today.<p>In larger corporation this has become fashion now. If you want to be known as a great 'architect' all you need to do is bring in these pointless complexities. Ensure the set up becomes so complicated it can't explained without the help of a hundred jargons totally incomprehensible to anybody beyond your cubicle. That is how you get promoted to become a architect these days.