RE: How to store 50 Terabytes per day?

Wait a minute.

This article indicates an asteroid is predicted to hit the earth, perhaps ending life as we know it, and we're discussing the world's biggest database and how to manage it?

Michael Fontana
Sr. DBA
NTT/Verio

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Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:08 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: How to store 50 Terabytes per day?

This quote appears in the following article: http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,95694, 00.html?nas=DM-95694
" When it's in operation in 2011 at a site still to be determined, the telescope being built for the LSST project will collect data at a rate of
about 6GB (equivalent to one DVD) per 10 seconds, generating many petabytes of data over time. One petabyte equals roughly 100 times the printed contents of the Library of Congress. The LSST project "pushes forward database technology dramatically," says Philip Pinto, a physics professor at Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona and a member
of the LSST project's board of directors. "The LSST database will probably
be the largest known nonproprietary database in the world." So if you were faced with the task of storing 50 Terabytes per day, what

kind of architecture would it require?
Do you think Oracle would hold up with a transaction rate of 600 Megabytes
per second?
The architecture of such a beast could drive out some interesting developments for more general use.
Jared

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