A matter of scale: How this World Heritage site is getting a handle on big data

'In two years it will be 45 million rows, easily'

Tom Allen
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A matter of scale: How this World Heritage site is getting a handle on big data

The Blenheim Estate had to find a solution to store and analyse the data from its sensor network, which stretches across West Oxfordshire.

Big data needs big infrastructure, especially when the physical estate you're responsible for is, not to put too fine a point on it...

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