Is It Still "Big Data" If It Fits In My Pocket?

Summary: Catalogs recurring patterns in big data processing from MB to PB scale, challenging size-only notions of Big Data. Proposes a systems research agenda and assesses how existing models, tools, and workloads fit across scale, diversity, and new user types. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10489
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,702 | 6.00%
DOI: 10.14778/3402707.3402709

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Authors

1. David Campbell (Microsoft)

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@article{campbell_vldb11,
        title = {{Is It Still "Big Data" If It Fits In My Pocket?}},
        author = {Campbell, David},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {11},
        pages = {694},
        doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402709},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402709},
        year = {2011}
}

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