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."

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Re:SQL Server?

[sphealey]

It's also this intense stupidity that has prevented us from having a major vendor that actually provides a real RDBMS to this very day. If DBMS people would actually invest a little time in learning about the Relational Model, maybe they'd stop purchasing the crap that Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc. keep forcing out and (flamebait here) maybe people would stop installing MySQL and Access and thinking they're going to be good for anything more important than cookie recipes).

That's exactly how Larry Ellison got his start - he saw a good idea in an IBM tech journal, hired some programmers to implement it, and the result was Oracle. Why don't you (and the others who post this stuff to database-related forums and threads) go ahead and do the same? Actually write and market a "real relational system based on theory"? Then you could stop yelling at everyone else about it.

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