{"id":48,"date":"2007-02-15T22:18:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T07:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/15\/really-big-databases\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T22:20:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T07:20:50","slug":"really-big-databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/15\/really-big-databases\/","title":{"rendered":"Really BIG Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessintelligencelowdown.com\/2007\/02\/top_10_largest_.html\">article<\/a> while digging this evening.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that topping this &#8216;Top 10&#8217; list for large databases is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mad.zmaw.de\/wdc-for-climate\/\">The World Data Center for Climate<\/a> (WDCC), operated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpimet.mpg.de\/en\/home.html\">Max Planck Institute for Meteorology<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dkrz.de\/dkrz\/intro_s\">German Climate Computing Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The WDCC has 220 terabytes of web-accessible data, plus <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">another 6 petabytes<\/span> of additional data. (Three times the total information in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">all<\/span> the US academic research libraries combined.) I would hate to see how that ran on anything slower than their 35 million euro supercomputer!<\/p>\n<p>I should also mention that in the comments section several even larger databases are mentioned in the traditional, post-top-10-anything-countdown, hey-what-about-so-and-so fest.<br \/><a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/database%20WDCC\" rel=\"tag\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this article while digging this evening. It seems that topping this &#8216;Top 10&#8217; list for large databases is The World Data Center for Climate (WDCC), operated by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-database","tag-database"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}