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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."
Microsoft truly does rule the world, and I, for one, am thankful.
Care to explain why?
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although among the biggest databases (his summary) is represented at a much lower percentage than 70
which doesn't mean M$ does not rule the world. as much as your statement doesn't prove M$ rules the world.
(can't believe i'm responding to a troll_
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Real geeks use acronyms.
I would say that most likely, for the vast majority of HTML pages, the metadata is bigger or at least comparable to the page itself. So it's probably a lot more than 10TB, but still, looking at the figure, it's not really much in terms of "mass".