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World's Largest Databases Ranked
prostoalex writes "Winter Corp. has summarized its findings of the annual TopTen competition, where the world's largest and most hard-working (in terms of load) databases are ranked. The results are in, and this year the contestants were ranked on size, data volume, number of rows and peak workload. I wrote up a brief summary of the top three winners in each category for those too lazy to browse the interactive WinterCorp chart."
scored a measley 17th. Oh well, time for more surfing.
I thought that 90% of the world's data was irretrievably trapped in IMS?
looks like you got a typo in your question there. let me fix it for you.
I thought that 90% of the world's data was irretrievably trapped in MS?
AT&T 94,305GB Daytona SMP AT&T Sun Sun
I wonder how much of this database is everytime users have switched to and from AT&T to get those cash bonuses!
Not only does Anonymous say a lot of things and write some music and paint, but he also has one of the world's largest databases.
Typical Microsoft calling their product something generic that should apply to any SQL server. Almost like calling a product .. Windows.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Hmm - how to /. your own website in one simple step?
Turns out after AT&T deleted an ex-employee's porn, mp3, and warez stash he was hiding in his own personal table they were able to optimize the database down to about 3GB of customer billing data. You just can't find good help these days.
Being it's AT&T and assuming a great deal is billing and maintence functions
.. login... ok..
..
Oh how naive! It may be AT&T but the DB will still be run by a bunch of nerds...
"Right, boss needs a client list"
> use bigassdb;
> show tables;
games
porn
mp3s
films
tv
other
"Ok clients must be in here somewhere..."
This was tested against a live directory with the same number of users and objects each time?
How was your test environment organised?
Oh no, you were being ironic, I must pay more attention.
Something is wrong...
Here I find a knowledgable person on Slashdot,
Who has given a well-written response,
Answered the question without flaming the askee,
Didn't use numbers/symbols for letters,
Never slammed MS or SCO,
And was modded up?
None dare mod down those w/ 4 digits.
My first reaction is that, if France Telecom has the largest (non-hybrid) proprietary relational data storage, at 29 TB, ahead of AT&T and SBC, at around 26TB each, that France Telecom must have a bunch of redundant data lying around.
As of 2001-01-01, France had a population of about 59 Million. As it turns out, however, France Telecom (FTE) provides services to a dozen countries, not just France. Checking Yahoo! Finance, I see that
FTE had 2002 revenues of 49B, with 240,000 employees.
ATT had 2002 revenues of 40B, with 71,000 employees.
Finally, SBC had 2002 revenues of 43B, with 175,000 employees.
So nothing terribly unusual about the size of their database. But it's obvious that the French employees are a bunch of unproductive slackers...
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