Yahoo claims "biggest" DB in the wild

[complacent]

So they're claiming that their 2 petabyte is the biggest one out there...

I'm trying to visualize that and not having much luck... for example:

The largest tables in the database already comprise "multiple trillions of rows,"

[Mr Kleen]

that's a lot a bits

[Libra Monkee]

2 petabytes of text?! *faints*

[Sabre]

lol, you should have seen some of my rainbow tables.... j/k

[sirwilliam]

And the data, all of it constantly accessed and all of it stored in a structured, ready-to-crunch form, is expected to grow into the multiple tens of petabytes by next year.

I wonder how long defrag takes?

[schvin]

lol, you should have seen some of my rainbow tables.... j/k

[ElZorro]

Wow... I mean, really, thats like about 300,000 DVDs worth of information... and I can't even imagine what 300,000 DVDs of information looks like. Have there even been 300,000 DVD movies released?

[spazegun2213]

And the data, all of it constantly accessed and all of it stored in a structured, ready-to-crunch form, is expected to grow into the multiple tens of petabytes by next year.

I wonder how long defrag takes?

yea, that or an optimize command.. or reindexing... *shudders*

[avriette]

I wonder how long defrag takes?

icarus% grep defrag /usr/share/dict/words
icarus%

Unix doesn't "do" defrags.