blog.wired.com - 9/17/2008
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The 2009 Guinness Book edition will have a surprise category. The pages that feature the record for 'Fastest Time To Push An Orange A Mile With One’s Nose' and 'Most Lives Saved By A Parrot, will also include one for the world's largest data warehouse .
The warehouse built and housed at Sun ...
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Sun Microsystems' Data Warehouse manages 1petabyte of raw data; enters in 2009 Guinness Book
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... trillion rows of transactional data and more than 185 million searchable documents, such as emails, reports and spreadsheets, says the company.
The warehouse which was built with help from Sybase and BMMsoft is more than 34 times larger than the largest industry standard benchmark and twice the size of the largest commercial data warehouse known to date. Also, it's very much environment friendly as it consumes 91 percent less energy than conventional solutions.
[Via Wired]
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