The 1-Petabyte Barrier Is Crumbling 217
CurtMonash writes "I had been a database industry analyst for a decade before I found 1-gigabyte databases to write about. Now it is 15 years later, and the 1-petabyte barrier is crumbling. Specifically, we are about to see data warehouses — running on commercial database management systems — that contain over 1 petabyte of actual user data. For example, 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."
Porn collection (Score:4, Funny)
No porn collection jokes please.
Won't somebody think of the children.... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh wait, that was petabyte...
Fixed it for you... (Score:5, Funny)
Petabyte DBs are old news to... (Score:3, Funny)
Petabyte DBs are old news to techie porn collectors. They always mix their two favorite subjects into one. Tech + Porn = Petabyte+ Porn Database
Oh s***! I'm calling my Congressman! (Score:5, Funny)
I have to find my kid. Last time I saw her, she was with her Uncle Micky while he was having his morning martini.
I am confused !! (Score:5, Funny)
How many Libraries of Congress are necessary to break the 1-petabyte barrier ??
Re:Google Maps is way bigger... (Score:5, Funny)
Google Maps' database is far bigger...
A base of 8 tiles, with each becoming four more smaller tiles, in two modes (map/satellite), and 16 zoom levels.
We are sorry, but we don't
have maps at this zoom
level for this region.
Try zooming out for a
broader look.
When the petafile barrier crumbles ... (Score:5, Funny)
... we'll need an army of Chris Hansens and a mountain of beartraps. God help us.
Noob (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh, come on. (Score:4, Funny)
The world will only ever need 5 large databases (Score:5, Funny)
The world will only need 5 large databases.
None of them will never need more than 640KB^H^HMB^H^HGBMB^H^HTB of RAM and 32MB^H^HGB^H^HTB^H^HPB of storage.
Re:I am confused !! (Score:1, Funny)
but, if they submit it to the LoC, then what?
Re:Noob (Score:5, Funny)
It has an event horizon and is actively acquiring porn on it's own?
Johnny Mnemonic (Score:5, Funny)
I need measurements I can understand, like how many Keanu Reeves' brains is a petabyte? And could he hold it indefinitely, or would his head explode at some point? If the latter, can we get him started on it now?
Re:WalMart has a 4 petabyte database already (Score:2, Funny)
They only needed one petabyte, but the Chinese cut them a deal on 4.
Re:Noob (Score:3, Funny)
...event horizon...
Awesome! That's what I'm going to call it now! My "event horizon"!
"Here it comes baby, the point of no return!"