Re: terabytes of storage

From: Michael Baker <ihatespam_mbpokeyman_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 03:47:44 GMT
Message-ID: <ATaCb.12896$Ho3.12392@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>

Its not Oracle, but here's an example of a government project that does nuclear simluations. It appears to be increasing at 1 terabyte a day.

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is a national basic research laboratory probing the structure of matter. SLAC uses Objectivity/DB for its flagship research project named B Factory, which includes the PEP II accelerator and the BaBar particle detector. SLAC is currently acquiring one terabyte of data per day, and as of July 2001 has over 650 terabytes of on-line data fully distributed over 250 servers. According to the Winter Corporation's independent annual review of the worlds largest databases, the Objectivity database in use at SLAC is the largest production database in the world. The tremendous scalability of Objectivity/DB helps SLAC cope with data volumes that would quickly overwhelm databases of lesser performance. </snip>

-MB

Joel Garry wrote:

> kaberjobs_at_yahoo.com (sir kaber) wrote in message news:<de54a322.0312080008.7dfa8141_at_posting.google.com>...
>

>>Hey, I'm not to familiar with data storage or data backup in the
>>enterprise, etc.. And I was just wondering what kind of companies
>>usually have databases that reach in the terabyte storage marks ? I'm
>>guessing companies that go through millions of customers per day ? But
>>how many companies really do that ? Nokia, Siemens, Microsoft, Sun,
>>basically fortune 500 companies (companies with net incomes of over a
>>100 million in most cases).
>>
>>I dunno, just a little bit confused on how companies are collecting so
>>much data in there databases/storage disks. Or just from those
>>companies alone it creates ample demand for seeing the Terabyte mark
>>frequently on the internet ?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-Akbar A.
>>// personal website: http://vertexabuse.cjb.net
>>// www.aliansystems.com

>
>
> UPS has a database that is quoted variously as 25, 75 or 183
> terrabytes. Amazon is huge. Airplane manufacturers have lots of
> parts. http://www.google.com/press/overview_tech.html
>
> Of course, the gummint is historically the biggest user, with its
> worldwide corporate replacement coming up fast. Just think what it
> takes to parse every email and airplane reservation and video scan
> crowds and do audio parsing on voice calls to check for t e r r o r i
> s t s.
>
> jg
> --
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Received on Thu Dec 11 2003 - 21:47:44 CST