I found this post, entitled Some of Oracle’s Largest Warehouses, on the DBMS2 blog and I thought I’d re-sort them by size in descending order. So, here they are:
Quoting Curt:
10 databases total are listed with >16 TB, which is fairly consistent with Larry Ellison’s confession during the Exadata announcement that Oracle has trouble over 10 TB, which is something I’ve gotten a lot of flack from a few Oracle partisans for pointing out
While I know it’s a bit unfair to compare contentbases with databases (because content is generally so much bigger and there is so much more of it), I thought I’d point out that the largest MarkLogic production application today runs at over 100 TB and that a typical publisher has single-digit terabytes of content. And we’re just getting started. And we’re not storing lots of stuff redundantly to optimize performance as you would in a data warehouse.
should fix that broken link to mark logic products.
done. thanks. (they changed the URLs on me.)
Dave,Isn’t it a little bit of apples to oranges. I mean, 10 TB of credit card tx data is a boatload of data — all of which is probably relevant and searchable. Managing lots and lots of little kids *seems* a bit harder than managing a couple of big kids.\jm
Not sure I’m following you on the kids analogy but I do agree (and I mentioned in the post!) that I think it’s a bit unfair to compare databases and contentbases. But I’d argue that managing 100 TB contentbase is *harder* than a 100 TB database because of all the vagaries associated with content — and empirically because virtually no one (save for Google and a few MarkLogic customers) actually attempt to create and manage contentases at this scale.Net/net: I do think they’re different but not so much so as to make comparison meaningless.