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Winter TopTen Programs
Winter TopTen Programs identify the world’s largest and most heavily used databases. The primary objective of these highly visible, global Programs is to recognize the database practitioners whose achievements have advanced the boundaries of database size and power. The Programs disclose the products, platforms and architectures that support the leading implementations. They also salute the vendors and database-related organizations whose products and services are enabling the world’s biggest data repositories.
Program Requirements
The requirements for participating in TopTen Program are simple. Any database implementation with a minimum of 1 TB of data for all platforms is eligible (WinterCorp’s definition of database size excludes free space and redundancy). Respondents complete and validate a short questionnaire on size, workload and DBMS, server and storage environments. Award winners are announced for up to 48 different categories, defined by usage (transaction processing, decision support or scientific/content/other), operating system and Program metric database size, volume of uncompressed data, number of rows/records/objects and peak workload). See Database Categories in the TopTen Program for more details.
All winners enjoy professional and promotional benefits provided by WinterCorp.
A Dynamic Frontier
WinterCorp research indicates that database size and power have grown faster than ever. From 2003 to 2005, the size of the largest data warehouse tripled, breaking the 100TB barrier. The number of rows rose five-fold and peak workload exceeded 1 billion SQL statements per hour.
2005 TopTen
Program Results
On September 8th 2005, WinterCorp announced the TopTen award winners and research findings from the 2005 TopTen Program. You can read the
press release
on the program findings and view all the
TopTen award winners.