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Big Data: Principles and Best Practices of Scalable Realtime Data Systems
Big Data: Principles and Best Practices of Scalable Realtime Data Systems is Nathan Marz and James Warren's 2015 Manning book that formalizes the Lambda Architecture of batch, speed, and serving layers using Hadoop, Storm, and Cassandra.
Big Dawgs
Big Dawgs: 2024 rap single by Indian rapper Hanumankind (Sooraj Cherukat) with producer Kalmi, released July 9, 2024 via Def Jam India; its Well of Death music video made it a global hit peaking at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Big Day Out
The Big Day Out, also known as the Big Day Out festival, was an annual rock and alternative music festival touring Australia and New Zealand from 1992 until 2014.
Big Day Out lineups by year
Big Day Out lineups by year: the annual artist bills of the Sydney-founded alternative music festival (1992-2014), from Nirvana's 1992 debut through Soundgarden, Metallica, Tool and Kanye West to the final 2014 Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire line-up.
Big Deal (film)
Big Deal (소주전쟁, Soju War) is a 2025 South Korean drama directed by Choi Yun-jin, starring Yoo Hae-jin and Lee Je-hoon in an M&A battle over fictional Gukbo Soju during the 1997 IMF crisis, loosely based on the real Jinro sale; released May 30, 2025 by Showbox.
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti) is Mario Monicelli's 1958 Italian heist comedy about bungling Roman burglars robbing a pawnshop; it founded commedia all'italiana, was Oscar-nominated, and spawned remakes and a Fosse musical.
Big dick energy
Big dick energy (BDE) is a slang term for an unassuming, effortless confidence. It first went viral in 2018, notably after Kyrell Grant used it to describe Anthony Bourdain.
Big Dig
The Big Dig, formally the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, was a Boston highway megaproject that replaced the elevated Central Artery with tunnels, running from 1991 to 2006 at a final cost near $14.6 billion.
Big Dig ceiling collapse
The Big Dig ceiling collapse occurred in Boston's Interstate 90 connector tunnel on July 10, 2006, when falling concrete panels crushed a car and killed one occupant.
Big Diomede Island (остров Ратманова)
Big Diomede Island, or Ratmanov Island, is a Russian island in the Bering Strait, 3.8 km from the American Little Diomede and a day ahead of it.
Big Dipper
The Big Dipper, also called the Plough or Charles's Wain, is an asterism of seven bright stars in Ursa Major whose bowl points to Polaris, the North Star.
Big Dutchman
Big Dutchman is a German manufacturer of feeding, housing, and climate technology for pig and poultry farming, founded in 1938 and headquartered in Vechta, Lower Saxony.
Big E (wrestler)
Big E (Ettore Ewen, born 1986) is an American WWE wrestler, former WWE Champion (Sept 2021), and New Day member with Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods; a March 2022 broken neck ended his in-ring career, and he is now retired, working as a WWE commentator.
Big East Conference
Big East Conference (BIG EAST), founded 1979 by Dave Gavitt; 11-member basketball-centric Division I conference since the 2013 Catholic 7 split; Madison Square Garden tournament; 45 team national titles; media deals with FOX, NBC, TNT, ESPN through 2031.
Big East Conference (1979–2013)
The Big East Conference (1979–2013) was a Division I athletic conference founded by Dave Gavitt with seven Eastern basketball schools, later added football in 1991, peaked with 11 NCAA bids in 2011, and split in 2013 into the American Athletic Conference and a new Catholic-school Big East.
Big Eight Conference
Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA Division I-A athletic conference descended from the 1907 MVIAA; members included Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State; dissolved in 1996 to form the Big 12 with four Southwest Conference schools.
Big endothelin
Big endothelin (big ET-1) is the 38-amino-acid precursor of endothelin-1, a potent vasoconstrictor produced by vascular endothelial cells; its far longer plasma half-life makes it a stable biomarker in cardiovascular disease.
Big Eyes
Big Eyes is Tim Burton's 2014 biographical drama starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz as Margaret and Walter Keane, about the painter whose husband took credit for her big-eyed paintings until her 1986 courtroom paint-off victory.
Big Fat Liar
Big Fat Liar is a 2002 American family comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, about a teenage liar whose stolen essay becomes a Hollywood hit movie.
Big Fish
Big Fish is a 2003 American fantasy drama film directed by Tim Burton, adapted from Daniel Wallace's 1998 novel, about a dying salesman who recounts his life as tall tales.
Big Fish (musical)
Big Fish is a 2013 stage musical by Andrew Lippa (music and lyrics) and John August (book), adapted from Daniel Wallace's 1998 novel and Tim Burton's 2003 film; it ran 98 performances on Broadway and later played London and Sydney.
Big Fish & Begonia (大鱼海棠)
Big Fish & Begonia (大鱼海棠) is a 2016 Chinese animated fantasy feature by Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun, twelve years in the making, inspired by Zhuangzi's Xiaoyaoyou, earning about 565 million yuan amid sharply polarized reviews.
Big Fish Theory
Big Fish Theory is Vince Staples's second studio album, released June 23, 2017 on Blacksmith/Def Jam. A 36-minute, 12-track hip hop record built on house, Detroit techno, and UK garage production from Zack Sekoff, SOPHIE, Flume, and others, it debuted at number 16 on the Billboard 200 and earned a Metacritic score of 89.
Big Five (orchestras)
The Big Five is a traditional grouping of five leading American symphony orchestras: Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, the New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia, first named in the 1950s.
Big Five banks of Canada
The Big Five banks of Canada, also called the Big 5 banks, are RBC, TD, Scotiabank, BMO, and CIBC, holding over 90% of Canadian banking assets.
Big Five personality traits
Big Five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism; the consensus five-factor taxonomy of personality derived from lexical studies, with HEXACO's Honesty-Humility as the main alternative.
Big Foot (Nicki Minaj song)
Big Foot (BIGFOOT) is Nicki Minaj's January 29, 2024 Republic Records diss track answering Megan Thee Stallion's "Hiss"; produced by Tate Kobang and ZellTooTrill, it broke Apple Music and YouTube solo female rap debut records but drew negative reviews.
Big Four (banking)
The Big Four in banking is a country-specific label for the four dominant banks in a national market, notably in China, Australia, and the United States.
Big Four (Indian snakes)
The Big Four are the four venomous snake species causing roughly 90% of snakebite envenoming in India: the Indian cobra, common krait, Russell's viper, and saw-scaled viper.
Big Four (Western Europe)
Big Four (Western Europe): informal grouping of France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, the four largest West European states; distinct from the Paris Peace Conference Big Four and the Big Four audit firms.