petabyte
Massive storage unit
A petabyte is a unit of digital information storage equal to one quadrillion bytes, or a thousand terabytes.
The prefix peta- denotes 10^15.
At this scale, comparisons help: a petabyte could hold roughly 500 billion pages of text or 13 years of HD video.
Large tech companies and research institutions measure their data in petabytes.
Facility housing networked computers
- cloudAtmospheric water vapor mass
- harddriveMagnetic data storage device
- SSDChip-based storage device
- archiveStored historical records
backup · repository · SAN · NAS · RAID · capacity · scalability · infrastructure
Data transmission capacity
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- transmissionSending of information
- downloadRemote-to-local data transfer
- uploadTransfer data outward
network · latency · bottleneck · fiber · speed · rate · time · days
Extremely large in scale
- vastExtremely great in size
- astronomicalRelating to outer space
- immenseExtremely large in scope
- colossalExtremely large in scale
staggering · unprecedented · exponential · explosive · growth · volume · accumulation · threshold
Systematic examination of datasets
- HadoopOpen-source cluster framework
- dataminingExtracting patterns from datasets
- distributedDivided and given out
- clusterGathered group nearby
processing · pipeline · streaming · batch · ingestion · ETL · Cassandra · throughput
datacenter
Facility housing networked computers
archive · backup · repository · SAN · NAS · RAID · capacity · scalability · infrastructure · colocation
bandwidth
Data transmission capacity
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- transmissionSending of information
- downloadRemote-to-local data transfer
upload · network · latency · bottleneck · fiber · speed · rate · time · days · years
enormous
Extremely large in scale
- vastExtremely great in size
- astronomicalRelating to outer space
- immenseExtremely large in scope
colossal · staggering · unprecedented · exponential · explosive · growth · volume · accumulation · threshold · milestone
analytics
Systematic examination of datasets
- HadoopOpen-source cluster framework
- dataminingExtracting patterns from datasets
- distributedDivided and given out
cluster · processing · pipeline · streaming · batch · ingestion · ETL · Cassandra · throughput · parallel
yottabyte
Largest standard storage measure
octet · prefix · SI · measurement · magnitude · order · notation · scientific · metric · digital