For a lot of companies that is a lot of data, yes. Maybe not big data, but the term is relative so if a business sits on 1000 times as much data as they have played with before, is it that unreasonable for them to say it is big data?
> ...is it that unreasonable for them to say it is big data?
Let's say I have an organization and we run into a dataset that is 1,000 times larger than anything we've dealt with. Should we put out a help-wanted ad for a "big data" developer? What if the largest dataset we had previously dealt with was 100 rows? The reason we have terms for things like this is to facilitate communication. If the definition is highly sensitive to context, then the term doesn't facilitate any communication, the whole context must still be spelled out. If the term is to have any meaning at all, it can't be a relative thing. Of course I'm of the opinion that the term is already meaningless, so I guess do whatever you want :)
