Internet-scalerefers to the terabyteandpetabyteageofdata sizes and the ability to scale to meet the processing requirements to handle this amountof data in a timely manner.
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 ageof big data), that can process and deliver massive amounts of user and other types ofdata in real time.