I'd been a database industry analyst for a decade before I found 1-gigabyte databases to write about. Now it's 15 years later, and the 1-petabyte barrier is crumbling. Specifically, we're about to see production data warehouses -- running on commercial database management systems -- that contain over 1 petabyte of actual user data. Greenplum is slated to have two of them within 60 days. Given how close it was a year ago, Teradata may have crossed the 1-petabyte mark by now too. And by the way, Yahoo already has a petabyte+ database running on a home-grown system.
Meanwhile, the 100-terabyte mark is almost old hat. Besides the vendors already mentioned above, others with 100+ terabyte databases deployed include Netezza, DATAllegro, Dataupia, and even SAS.
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Forgot Sybase IQ?
September 6, 2007
http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=39C95B84-8AD9-4E87-8B08-F918394CA95C
Sybase IQ got there before any of the vendors mentioned above.
Hardly. I was referring to
Hardly. I was referring to actual production systems.
But I'll go edit the word "production" into my post now for greater clarity.
Thanks,
CAM
Leave the Petabyte Barriers Up
As a concerned parent, I do not support any move to allow petabytes more accessiblity or roles in the workplace. I do not care if they work in datawarehouses or a furniture warehouse, I am concerned with their access. I support the online registries in order to warn other concerned, law abiding people. Subsequnetly Yahoo is irresponsible for have one in it's organization. Shame on Greenplum for having 2 in it's organization, knowing they are Petabytes, and continuing to retain them, even promoting this fact. What about the children? Will they live in a world where Petabytes are accepted and more commonplace? Is that where we want to be??????
Is it legal? Many countries would not tolerate this!!
It's OK
All the petabytes are carefully registered and managed, with their location known at all times.
I hope that eases your concern.
CAM
Equal rights for petabytes
Mark my words: I will not rest until even the oddest petabyte is treated with complete parity. There's space for everyone.
Now stop bit, all of you.
No compression ?
I suspect that if you removed compression from some of the larger Teradata instalations, they would have passed the Petabyte barrier a while ago !