Remember the days when a terabyte was really a LOT of data? That's about what you find in a laptop these days. For REALLY big databases, Business Intelligence Lowdown provides the list of the 10 largest databases in the world.
Interestingly, the database didn't necessarily have to be digital to make the list. Here they are in ascending order:
10) US Library of Congress: 130 million items (books, photographs, maps, etc), 20 TBs of text
9) Central Intelligence Agency: Classified, of course
8) Amazon: 42 TBs of data
7) YouTube: 45 TBs of videos
6) ChoicePoint: 250 TBs of data
5) Sprint: TBs not shown, but the carrier has 2.85 trillion database rows
4) Google: You knew they had to be on this list. 91 million searches per day reported.
3) AT&T: 323 TBs of information
2) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center: 2.8 petabytes
1) World Data Centre for Climate: 220 TBs of Web data, 6 petabytes of additional data
Leave a comment