For big amount of data items, large range of key space, it is necessary to distribute data to multiple ZDB instances and scale the system as data growing.
The opportunity to work -- unpaid -- went for some pretty big amounts: $2,900 at Vanity Fair, $9,000 at the Huffington Post -- and an eye-popping $42,500 at Vogue.
Other consulting partnerships, like PricewaterhouseCoopers, pay bigger pensions tied to income level, but Andersen's partners opted for a one-size-fits-all pension so current partners would not grow resentful over having to pay big amounts for retirees, Mr. Kullberg said.
Each of these is in an earlier stage of life than the companies in the top ten, and may be raising big amounts now for other reasons, like easy terms offered by lots of eager investors.
The industry, in response, is lobbying the Obama transition team for infrastructure projects that would require big amounts of steel.
Now, there is fear that big drug companies will be more hesitant to offer big amounts of money for the products of biotechnology companies.
As he explained, though, "Why would you run off with a pound that would sell for $2,000, when the potential in the long run is worth so much more?" The second lesson I learned was that middle-tier dealers are making a lot of their profits doing flips, or moving big amounts of weed for tiny amounts of money to other dealers below them.
The production of construction materials accounts for significant quantities of raw materials and respectively big amounts of energy.
While the sum is hefty by most standards, it's not a big amount for the likes of Mr. Perelman, who is estimated to worth more than $12 billion.
