If you keep all order book changes for a large number of financial instruments volume adds up quickly.
https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/snippets/inet2.html
Message Volume 1,684,103,265
Messages per Second 1,134,640
Order Volume 871,875,595
Orders per Second 581,696
Share Volume 12,814,454,760
Executions per Second 193,350
Also if you look at equity derivative products which have parameters like type call/put, strike, maturity can be hundreds of financial products for one underlying stock.I worked in this sector and volume of data is a real challenge, no wonder you often get custom software to handle that :)