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2001 DATABASE SCALABILITY PROGRAM

Company Concurrent
Queries*
DBMS Partner Server Partner Storage Partner
SBC 1,200 NCR NCR LSI
Dialog 1,000 Proprietary Amdahl EMC
3M 500 NCR NCR LSI
Albacom 300 NCR NCR NCR
HCIA Sachs 300 Informix Sun Sun
Korea Telecom Freetel 256 Oracle Sun EMC
Blockbuster 250 Oracle IBM IBM
AT & T 240 NCR NCR LSI
First Union Nat. Bank 200 Informix IBM EMC
Casino 140 NCR NCR NCR
*Peak number of concurrent, inflight queries

 
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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