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Re:Ask HN: To everybody who uses MapReduce: what problems do... by schrodinger on Sunday November 10, 2013 @05:22PM (#6708724)
Of course big data is about number of bytes. That's what something like map reduce helps with. It depends on breaking down your input into smaller chunks, and the number of chunks is certainly related to the number of bytes.
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