Winter Corporation VLDB Program
Database Size
All Environments, Decision Support Systems
1998 VLDB Survey Program

Rank

Organization

DBMS

Processor

Architecture

Storage

Data(GB)

1
 The Dialog Corporation (federated) Proprietary Hitachi GX8724, Sun SPARC SMP EMC, HDS, IBM, Sun, Kubic

6,300

1
 Sears, Roebuck and Co. – SPRS Teradata NCR 5100 MPP EMC

4,630

2
 HCIA Informix Dynamic Server Sun 6000 - 1000 SMP Seagate, Quantum

4,500

3
 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Teradata NCR 5100 MPP Seagate

4,422

4
 Tele Danmark A/S DB2 IBM RS/6000 MPP IBM

2,840

5
 CitiCorp DB2 IBM SP MPP IBM

2,468

6
 MCI Telecomms Corp. - DB Marketing Informix IBM SP MPP IBM

1,884

7
 NDC Health Information Services Oracle Sequent NUMA-Q 2000 NUMA EMC, DG Clariion

1,850

8
 Dayton Hudson Corporation NonStop SQL Tandem Himalaya MPP Tandem

1,315

9
 Sprint Teradata NCR 5100 MPP NCR

1,300

10
 Ford Motor Company Oracle Sequent NUMA-Q NUMA EMC

1,200

* 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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