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The biggest databases in the world

Posted by William Heath in Faster/smaller/better..., databases at February 16th, 2007

We live in an age of unprecedented vast databases and a future of exponential further growth in database size. What are the biggest today? The possibly US-centric Business Intelligence Lowdown, sticks its neck out and claims the top 10 is:

10. Library of Congress
9. Central Intelligence Agency
8. Amazon
7. YouTube
6. ChoicePoint
5. Sprint
4. Google
3. AT&T
2. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
1. World Data Centre for Climate

They offer some interesting stats, but no source, methodology or suggestion about how comprehensive they think it is. Picked up by Digg, the article cops a string of protesting comments (they need an “offensive?” button). Thought-provoking, though. I wonder how EMC, CERN and the world’s Googlezons see the long-term future of massive databases? Does sheer size and scale bring new issues?

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