Stacey Higginbotham penned a post at GigaOm entitled “Systems to handle big data might be this generation’s moon landing.”  Since it was posted on April 1, I asked myself if this was an April Fool’s Day joke as the comparison seemed a little farfetched; but then I realized the analogy was not about  the emotional significance of the first moon landing  but about the complexity of the problem Big Data is trying to solve. More...