2009/7/6 David Ballester <ballester.david@xxxxxxxxx> > > >> Now certainly, you can build a >100TB Oracle instance, but the cost and >> the complexity would be challenging. In addition, presumably they only >> see this data store growing, and how do you deal with a 200, 300, 400TB >> Oracle instance? Google, for example, in 2006 had approximately 1.2PB >> of data in their structured data store. Heaven knows what it is now. >> > > > semi off topic > > Yahoo has a datawarehouse of 2PB and 24 Bilions of 'events' ( changes? ) > per day. They got postgresql source code and rebuild some parts to meet > their needs > > Afaik, they are very happy with the results > > > http://www.dbms2.com/2008/05/29/yahoo-scales-web-analytics-database-petabyte/ > > > D. > ops... seems that this year, yahoo reached the 10 PetaBytes