Re: Largest Oracle Databases

thats not exactly true.

Since the CIA is a govt agency, they HAVE to tell you that kind of info, they just dont have to tell you what the data is. But layouts, tuning recommendations, etc all can be gotten, worst case here in the US, you can always invoke FOIA(aka Freedom of information act).

joe
Mark Leith wrote:
>
> "I hear rumors of Oracle databases of hundreds of terabytes at the CIA, but
> I have no way to confirm them."
>
> I'm sure a member of their team will knock on your door shortly, just for
> mentioning their name and "data" in the same email - why not ask them then
> :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Ian A.
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 01:00
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
> One of the smaller Physics projects, GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space
> Telescope) is looking at storing their data in Oracle. The bulk of thge
> data will be a sky map of individual photons, about 20 terabytes, acquired
> at a rate of about 1 TB a year. What size is the largest Oracle database at
> present? I believe Oracle should be able to handle this, but I'd like to
> know if anyone has approached this size. I hear rumors of Oracle databases
> of hundreds of terabytes at the CIA, but I have no way to confirm them.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------------
> Offtopic
>
> I wrote a little while ago about CERN considering Oracle for LHC project,
> and needing a petabyte database. It turns out that the number was
> incorrect. The petabyte that was tossed around a few years ago would be for
> online and secondary storage only. I don't know their needs for tertiary
> storage, but our little project here , called Babar, which is expected to
> store half a petabyte of data in online and nearline storage is sized to
> 300 petabytes when tertiary storage is included. The 0.5 petabytes for
> online and nearline will probably be upped. If LHC has the same relationship
> between tertiary and online/nearline storage, then they will need something
> which can handle about 600 petabytes. Last week I attended a meeting on a
> project called SuperBabar. Data estimates of size for that one are one
> exabyte. I'm sure there are others in the works which will make SuperBabar
> look tiny. The mind boggles.
>
> Babar is not in Oracle and I don't expect SuperBabar will be either.
>
> Ian MacGregor
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> ian_at_slac.stanford.edu
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