it was 29,000 GBs, which is 29 TB, which is not the largest. one of the guys on this list works on the stanford atom smasher and they had 700 TB a couple of years ago. The biggest ones are probably classified and ones that don't use off the shelf dbs(ie google). curious how they determine 'peak load'. I don't think transaction is a good measure for this. since a transaction in one system could be 8 DML statements and in another it could be 1. -------------- Original message -------------- > I suspect those database sizes are actually meant TB not GB, because > in article http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=3D8182 you > can find volumes more likely to be correct. World's largest DB with 29 > GB even in year 2003 seems much too small to be believable. > > Gints > > On 5/17/05, ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > has anyone updated this list? or a newer list? I know AOL has two 25 TB d= > atawarehouses. I have heard about petabyte databases as well. > > just curious. > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l