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CERN has the one of the largest databases in the world. It's nowhere near a classical database. It isn't even relational. It's just many Petabytes of flat binary files. CERN and other large research labs such as SLAC have been doing this sort of stuff successfully for decades. http://www-db.cs.wisc.edu/cidr/papers/P06.pdf http://www.sigex.com/pgs/todaysanalysis/traffic8P.php Similar story for other huge science databases such as the SNAP satellite supernova database - http://snap.lbl.gov/ Wolfgang. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Hoschek | email: whoschek@l... Distributed Systems Department | phone: (415)-533-7610 Berkeley Laboratory | http://dsd.lbl.gov/~hoschek/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On Dec 15, 2004, at 5:53 AM, Rich Salz wrote: >> There are many people who seem to think that 99% of the world's data >> is held >> in relational databases. They are badly wrong. > > We'll never know. > > I betcha the telemetry information from a couple of satellites can > easily > swamp a banking system. > /r$ > -- > Rich Salz Chief Security Architect > DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com > XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html > XML Security Overview > http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html >
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