businessintelligencelowdown.com— Many of these databases hold several petabytes of data. Included on the list are Google, ChoicePoint, and the CIA, the largest one will surprise you.
Feb 15, 2007View in Crawl 4
There is something about this that I'm not buying - it says 100 million videos are viewed on YouTube per day but compare that to that it also states that Google gets 91 million searches per day... that can't be correct, either of these numbers have to be wrong.
Not to mention that it would just be the 10 Largest Databases in the World. You can't have a Top 10 of a set that only contains 10 items. That's kinda like saying it was the "most fast fastest thing".
Mhhh... this article is full of it, for example check this paper by google:<a class="user" href="http://216.239.37.132/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf">http://216.239.37.132/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf</a>It's about the BigTable system (a non-relational database) used at google. Check the example table, the web crawler, by itself, has a 800TB table (compressed), Analytics (just records clicks by the way), has a 200TB click table. We're over a petabyte with just two subsystems of two google products!Imagine the size of the web indexes distributed all over the planet, or how much information is stored in GMail, etc.
This cannot be very reliable. It is very US-centric and highly suspect. Atleast 2 of the 5 largest employers in the world alone are in India and the UK (Indian Railways + NHS) and they each have huge terrabytes of data that they handle. The UK NI system is reputedly a huge database as is one at Germany's Deutsche Post. This article should be buried.
Closed AccountFeb 16, 2007
This is nothing compared to my midget porn collection.
arnarFeb 16, 2007
There is something about this that I'm not buying - it says 100 million videos are viewed on YouTube per day but compare that to that it also states that Google gets 91 million searches per day... that can't be correct, either of these numbers have to be wrong.
bigtomrodneyFeb 16, 2007
Not to mention that it would just be the 10 Largest Databases in the World. You can't have a Top 10 of a set that only contains 10 items. That's kinda like saying it was the "most fast fastest thing".
junkFeb 16, 2007
His numbers for Amazon are way off anyway, the article is total junk.
starfly3rFeb 16, 2007
Inaccurate. Michael Jackson's Boys yrs 12-14 pics estimated at over 71 terabytes....
juancnFeb 16, 2007
Mhhh... this article is full of it, for example check this paper by google:<a class="user" href="http://216.239.37.132/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf">http://216.239.37.132/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf</a>It's about the BigTable system (a non-relational database) used at google. Check the example table, the web crawler, by itself, has a 800TB table (compressed), Analytics (just records clicks by the way), has a 200TB click table. We're over a petabyte with just two subsystems of two google products!Imagine the size of the web indexes distributed all over the planet, or how much information is stored in GMail, etc.
Closed AccountFeb 16, 2007
This cannot be very reliable. It is very US-centric and highly suspect. Atleast 2 of the 5 largest employers in the world alone are in India and the UK (Indian Railways + NHS) and they each have huge terrabytes of data that they handle. The UK NI system is reputedly a huge database as is one at Germany's Deutsche Post. This article should be buried.
treeheadFeb 19, 2007
NSA. My thoughts exactly.Then again, when you're in the business of keeping national secrets...
scomarthaMay 21, 2007
Really good. How the hell did this get such many diggs?