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Largest Database Size*
All Environments, Transaction Processing
1998 VLDB SURVEY PROGRAM

Rank

Organization

DBMS

Processor

Architecture

Storage

Data(GB)

1
UPS - PLD Repository (federated) DB2 IBM S/390, Hitachi Skyline SMP EMC, IBM

16,800

1
TELSTRA DB2 Hitachi Skyline Cluster HDS, EMC, IBM

4,350

2
Experian - Credit Reporting DB2 Hitachi Skyline 62 SMP EMC

2,739

3
SK Telecom DB2 IBM S/390 MPP HDS, IBM

1,955

4
IZB Software Adabas Amdahl 5995 SMP EMC, Comparex

1,310

5
Caixa Economica Federal CA-IDMS IBM S/390 SMP EMC, HDS, IBM

661

6
Victoria's Secret Catalogue DB2 Amdahl SMP IBM, EMC

660

7
DBS Systems Corp. Oracle RDB Digital VAX7830 MPP DEC

631

8
Mitsukoshi Information Service Co. Teradata NCR 5100 MPP EMC

600

9
CentreLink CCA Model 204 IBM S/390 Cluster IBM, EMC

582

10 
Metromail Corporation Oracle Sequent Symmetry 5000 SMP EMC

405

* includes detail data, aggregates, summaries and indexes, and excludes free space and redundancy.

NOTE that in the categories in which the Grand Prize winner is a federated database, we are also
naming a non-federated Grand Prize winner. Thus, some of the 'Top Ten' lists may contain 11 winners.


 

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