Huge databases cataloged

At http://wintercorp.com/, where the largest databases are cataloged, with their platforms. Impressively, Yahoo tips the scales as the largest commercial database at a mere 100.4 Terabytes, running BSD Unix. Amazon sports two databases on Linux, one 24.8 and the other 18.6 Terabytes. The largest database Winter found was a private meteorology system at Max Planck Institute, a 222.8 Terabytes behemoth. Let’s see… I remember when a 100 Megabyte IBM DASD drive was $1.4 Million (early 90’s), wholly cow, that would be $3.1 Trillion. The busiest database processes over 1 billion SQL statements per hour.

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