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2001 DATABASE SCALABILITY PROGRAM

Company DB Size*
(TB)
DBMS Partner Server Partner Storage Partner
SBC 10.50 NCR NCR LSI
First Union Nat. Bank 4.50 Informix IBM EMC
FedEx Services 3.70 NCR NCR EMC
Office Depot 3.08 NCR NCR EMC
AT & T 2.83 NCR NCR LSI
SK C&C 2.54 Oracle HP EMC
NetZero 2.47 Oracle Sun EMC
Telecom Italia (DA) 2.32 Informix Siemens TerraSystems
Casino 2.26 NCR NCR NCR
Blockbuster 2.15 Oracle IBM IBM
*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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