Re: terabytes of storage

Michael Baker <ihatespam_mbpokeyman_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<ATaCb.12896$Ho3.12392_at_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.
>
>
> <snip from
> http://www.objectivity.com/Industry/Success/highperformance.html >
>
> 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

Ian McGregor posts over on the ORACLE-L list hosted by fatcity. He indicated that not all of that data is online, but is in hierarchial storage.

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>
> 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
> > --
> > @home.com is bogus.
> > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,13644,00.html
Received on Fri Dec 12 2003 - 09:18:07 CST