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2001 DATABASE SCALABILITY PROGRAM

Company DB Size*
(TB)
DBMS Partner Server Partner Storage Partner
Telstra 10.36 IBM IBM, Hitachi IBM
British Telecom 8.45 CA IBM EMC
United Parcel Service 7.88 IBM IBM EMC
Experian 3.14 IBM Hitachi EMC
US Customs Service 2.70 CA IBM Hitachi
Korea Telecom (KT ICIS) 2.26 Oracle Compaq StorageTek
Dacom System Tech. 1.80 Oracle Pyramid Seagate
CheckFree 1.35 IBM IBM IBM
Centrelink 1.27 CCA IBM IBM
LG TelCom 1.13 Oracle HP EMC
*Database size = sum of user data + summaries and aggregates + indexes

 
The values in this table portray the size of some of the world's largest database size in 2001 (some database owners chose not to participate in the survey program). Since then, database size has grown dramatically. If the Top Ten lists were compiled today, the metrics and rankings would look different.

 

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