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1998 VLDB Survey Program
TopTen Winners
The 1998 survey asked respondents to provide the size of the database, total number of rows or records, and peak online activity. In addition, the databases were sorted by primary usage - transaction processing versus decision support - and separate rankings were compiled for each classification. Some categories comprised all operating systems whereas others, in order to track the shift towards open computing, appraised only Unix systems.
In the categories in which the Grand Prize winner was a federated database, we named a non-federated Grand Prize winner. Therefore, some of the TopTen lists may contain 11 winners.
The 12 categories of winners in the 1998 program are:
Transaction Processing:
- Largest Database Size, All Environments*
- Most Rows/Records, All Environments
- Largest Database Size, Unix Only*
- Most Rows/Records, Unix Only
- Peak Online Activity, All Environments*
- Peak Online Activity, Unix Only
Decision Support:
- Largest Database Size, All Environments*
- Most Rows/Records, All Environments*
- Largest Database Size, Unix Only
- Most Rows/Records, Unix Only
- Peak Online Activity, All Environments*
- Peak Online Activity, Unix Only
*All operating systems, including Unix