Re: terabytes of storage

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

the biggest one in the world is a particle accelerator at Stanford. they arent using oracle. some database called 'objectivity'. They added 200 TBs this year alone. supposed CERN in europe which is running Oracle will get to 5-7 Petabytes by the end of the decade.

here is a neat site on this stuff.

http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.asp

surprising how so many are sql server. dont know how accurate it is. Im pretty confident in the largest DSS one(one at stanford). one of their DBAs posts to the oracle-l listserv. Received on Fri Dec 12 2003 - 09:19:04 CST