Re: database size statistic (worldwide)

From: Vadim Grepan <kezal__rmv__it___at_mail.ru>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:54:21 +0400
Message-ID: <bmdp4f$6qm$1@slim.sovintel.ru>

Daniel Morgan wrote:

> Vadim Grepan wrote:
>

>> Hello All!
>>
>> I'm looking for database size statistic for different RDBMS. I mean 
>> the biggest like Oracle/DB2/Teradata of corse
>>
>> The most desirable result can be following: if every RDBMS considers 
>> separately and takes all installations as 100%, it's interesting to 
>> know how many  instances work with databases up to 500Gb, up to 1Tb 
>> and so on
>>
>> Smth like that:
>>   Oracle: up to 500Gb - x%, 500Gb..5Tb - y%, >5Tb - z%
>>   DB2: up to 500Gb - xx%, 500Gb..5Tb - yy%, >5Tb - zz%
>>   ...
>>

> Someone has undoubtedly published the numbers somewhere ... but they
> will be highly inaccurate for many reasons.
> First and most obviously by the fact that vendors don't license by
> database size so they really don't know. Second
> because companies and government organizations often consider such
> information proprietary and either refuse to
> give it out or just make things up to impress their audience.
Of couse, I cannot expect absolutely precise numbers, it's only statistics you know ;)) OTOH i've read in OraMag such data for separate companies and org's

> My database? Heck I've got ten bazillion gazigabytes. And that's just in
> DEV.

=))

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Rgds, Vadim Grepan
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Moscow, Russia

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