RE: Largest Oracle Databases

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> From: MacGregor, Ian A. [mailto:ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:00 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Largest Oracle Databases
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> 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.
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> Offtopic
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> 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.
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> Ian MacGregor
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> ian_at_slac.stanford.edu
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