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?

[the_mad_poster]

E.F. Codd (recently deceased, actually) developed the Relational Model back in the late 60's while working at IBM. The System R project at IBM was one of several research projects in the early 70's that aimed at implementing a RDBMS (Ingres was the other big one out in Berkeley).

SEQUEL developed out of the System R project as a simplification of the first query language - SQUARE. It further developed to SQL which ANSI bastardized in 1986.

Editorial follows. Generally speaking, sick mutations of that bastardized query language from 1986 are what we have today and are, in fact, the reason that many people mistakenly think that RDBMS's aren't terribly effective anymore (the problem is that SQL is a grotesque kludge that ANSI screwed up to make people happy because those people didn't want to bother learning the basics of the Relational Model and/or the mathematics behind the Relational Theory. 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).

Yea, I read Fabian Pascal a little too often, what's your point?