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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.
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Berkeley Laboratory | http://dsd.lbl.gov/~hoschek/
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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$
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