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2001 DATABASE SCALABILITY PROGRAM

Company Peak TPS* DBMS Partner Server Partner Storage Partner
US Customs Service 26,655 CA IBM Hitachi
Centrelink 8,100 CCA IBM IBM
British Telecom 2,800 CA IBM EMC
Samsung 2,500 Oracle IBM EMC
Roadway Express 2,216 CCA IBM Hitachi
Channell 650 Oracle Sun Sun
Dacom System Tech. 600 Oracle Pyramid Seagate
United Parcel Service 472 IBM IBM EMC
TransUnion, LLC 380 IBM IBM IBM
LG TelCom 340 Oracle HP EMC
Experian (InSource) 266 Oracle IBM EMC
* Transactions per second

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

 

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