Note that Wikibon defines big data as data sets whose size, type and speed of creation make them impractical to process and analyze with traditional database technologies and related tools in a cost- or time-effective way.

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Big data refers to a set of information and data so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using conventional database management tools.

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Still, the companies did even more analyses of the database, and say they did not actually begin the process of "unblinding" the data until Dec. 31, 2007.

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Millions of simultaneous users play Farmville or Draw Something (which scaled up to 36 million users in 6 weeks), which requires a simple, fast, elastic database (called a NoSQL database, a new category of product designed for the age of big data), that can process and deliver massive amounts of user and other types of data in real time.

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