The opposite of big data is no data; however, when talking about data in terms of scale, a comparison of small data and big data is typically made. Small data and big data are different, but they aren’t exactly opposites. Small data is structured, comes in lower velocities, and can be analyzed with a traditional database. Big data is unstructured, comes in petabyte floods, and simply can’t fit in a database, as it exceeds the capacity of tables, rows, and columns in terms of complexity and processing.