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."

My porn database

[Trigun]

scored a measley 17th. Oh well, time for more surfing.

Re:No IMS?

[musikit]

I thought that 90% of the world's data was irretrievably trapped in IMS?

looks like you got a typo in your question there. let me fix it for you.

I thought that 90% of the world's data was irretrievably trapped in MS?

The truely largest DBs in the World

[dominick]

1. SCO's database of threatening Lawsuits
2. The United States DoD of truly amazing useless shit
3. Slashdot's collection of slashdotted sites.
3. My pr0n database tops the chart at 437 nonabytes.

http://www.nonabyte.org

Ride on my dear friend. Ride on!

Switches

[Davak]

AT&T 94,305GB Daytona SMP AT&T Sun Sun

I wonder how much of this database is everytime users have switched to and from AT&T to get those cash bonuses!

SMP?

[zm]

France Telecom uses Oracle Corp. as its DBMS, Hewlett-Packard Co. as its storage and system vendor, and employs an SMP (symbol manipulation program) architecture.

A case of acronym confusion, I guess. :-)

Anonymous

[suso]

Not only does Anonymous say a lot of things and write some music and paint, but he also has one of the world's largest databases.

Re:SQL Server?

[AndroidCat]

Typical Microsoft calling their product something generic that should apply to any SQL server. Almost like calling a product .. Windows.

Doh!

[Dilaudid]

I wrote up a brief summary of the top three winners in each category for those too lazy to browse the interactive WinterCorp chart

Hmm - how to /. your own website in one simple step?

Re:SMP?

[Trbmxfz]

> > SMP (symbol manipulation program) architecture.
> A case of acronym confusion, I guess. :-)

Indeed. Surely they meant "Service Mediation Platform" or possibly "Sex, Money, Power"...

Re:94.3TB!?!?!

[AKnightCowboy]

they always seem to become an entity unto themselves that just *seems* to be under control, when it reality no two or three guys have enough access and enough experience with the thing to know exactly what's there.

Turns out after AT&T deleted an ex-employee's porn, mp3, and warez stash he was hiding in his own personal table they were able to optimize the database down to about 3GB of customer billing data. You just can't find good help these days.

Re:94.3TB!?!?!

[milamber.net]

Being it's AT&T and assuming a great deal is billing and maintence functions

Oh how naive! It may be AT&T but the DB will still be run by a bunch of nerds...

"Right, boss needs a client list"
.. login... ok..

> use bigassdb;
> show tables;
games
porn
mp3s
films
tv
other

..
"Ok clients must be in here somewhere..."

Re:article also reports that

[andyh]

This was tested against a live directory with the same number of users and objects each time?

How was your test environment organised?

Oh no, you were being ironic, I must pay more attention.

Re:My porn database

[real_smiff]

Does anyone actually have their porn in a database (of some sort)? I'm curious whether the "porn database" is just a joke or ... hmm, worth implementing! For all I know, there's already a 'porn-o-base' (tm?) collaborative project on sourcefourge that you're all using - after reading slashdot for a bit nothing would surprise me...

What are the pros and cons to databasing (sp.?) your porn? - except perhaps, reduced chance of getting a girlfriend, and chance of ridicule, obviously...

Hey, this is the right place to ask ;)

they are missing a few ....

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Slashdot, as the biggest SCO Flames database
The registry of some of my NT5 servers that has become HUGE after 2 years ..
My pr0n cd's sql database : )

Re:My porn database

[goosman]

I started to organize my pr0n with a database, but i found that I was easily distracted by the content.

Plus 'leafing' through it is half the fun.

Not Completely True but Still Frightening

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe you have the right to, once a year, get your credit rating, for free, on demand (usually written.)

Here in Colorado, Equifax sends me a notice every year that my credit was checked and offers me a free copy of the report they (alledgedly) are sending out.

What remains scary is that, although my credit report was dead on, I have in the past had reports that were so wildly inaccurate I had to laugh out loud. But because the person whose information was included on my report had such great credit the credit reporting company (not Equifax, the other one), told me to just leave it on there and take the benefits.

So thank you, Mr. X in Texas! Without your lack of control and deep pockets we probably wouldn't have got our house. Merry Christmas!

Re:What surprised me...

[Quill_28]

Something is wrong...

Here I find a knowledgable person on Slashdot,
Who has given a well-written response,
Answered the question without flaming the askee,
Didn't use numbers/symbols for letters,
Never slammed MS or SCO,

And was modded up?

Re:My porn database

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone actually have their porn in a database (of some sort)?

Yes. I do not, but a close friend has a several terabyte database, burned to cd, referenced, with a shnazzy web interface. If a file you are looking for is unavailable, it requests that he swap some cd's to make that content available.

Hey, it's a hobby.

Re:What surprised me...

[jxs2151]

It's his user #.

None dare mod down those w/ 4 digits.

France Telecom? They must be doing something wrong

[bshroyer]

My first reaction is that, if France Telecom has the largest (non-hybrid) proprietary relational data storage, at 29 TB, ahead of AT&T and SBC, at around 26TB each, that France Telecom must have a bunch of redundant data lying around.

As of 2001-01-01 [ambafrance-zm.org], France had a population of about 59 Million. As it turns out, however, France Telecom (FTE) provides services to a dozen countries, not just France. Checking Yahoo! Finance, I see that

FTE had 2002 revenues of 49B [yahoo.com], with 240,000 employees.
ATT had 2002 revenues of 40B [yahoo.com], with 71,000 employees.
Finally, SBC had 2002 revenues of 43B [yahoo.com], with 175,000 employees.

So nothing terribly unusual about the size of their database. But it's obvious that the French employees are a bunch of unproductive slackers...