Re: Datawarehouse Sizes.....informal poll.

I, like many others, have a problem with the "size is everything" definition. I worked with a 2 TB DSS system six years ago that wasn't a real "data warehouse". And I've seen a true datawarehouse fledgling that was under 200 GB (with lots of free space).

However, even making the nonsense assumption, there would have to be a time factor. What would have been a VLDB five years ago might be smallish today. And a few tomorrows into the future, it might be "It's only a petabyte, you can't call THAT a data warehouse!". At this exact moment, the answer is 42 (x 10 GB). However, that answer is now obsolete.

-Don Granaman
[OraSaurus]

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:55 PM

> Informal survey: Datawarehousing.
>
> Limiting Assumption: "A necessary and sufficient condition for
defining
> something
> to be a datawarehouse is the amount of data
> to be stored."
>
> Question/Poll: Given the above ridiculous constraint, at/above
what size
> can something
> be considered a data warehouse?
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> Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com
> --
> Author: Mohan, Ross
> INET: MohanR_at_STARS-SMI.com

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