Big data on the cheapest MacBook(duckdb.org)
360 points by bcye | 283 comments
DuckDB blog post benchmarking database workloads on Apple's entry-level MacBook Neo to test its suitability for big data analysis.
#big-data on Hacker News
5 stories tagged big-data, newest first.
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)(adamdrake.com)
373 points by tosh | 251 comments
A 2014 blog post by Adam Drake showing that shell pipelines on a laptop processed 1.75GB of chess game data about 235x faster than a Hadoop EMR cluster.
Social Cooling (2017)(socialcooling.com)
387 points by laurex | 201 comments
Social Cooling is an explainer site arguing that pervasive data collection makes people self-censor and conform, likening the effect to how oil drives global warming.
Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)
548 points by armanke13 | 428 comments
A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.
Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company(blog.vespa.ai)
325 points by bratao | 127 comments
Vespa blog post by CEO Jon Bratseth announcing that Vespa, the open big data serving engine, is spinning out of Yahoo as its own company.