What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion objects?

Re:What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion obj... by jaydub on Thursday May 07, 2009 @11:47PM (#599138)

but the size of the problem in total bytes may be more of a problem than the actual looking up and indexing of the data.

One cool property of such a large data-set (~200TB) is that you are pretty sure to see a lot of the same data repeated.

It'd be neat to try reduce the overall data footprint by assigning some sort of signature to repeats. I.e. if you are storing the sequences (let's imagine for a sec that these are non-trivial sizes) ABC, ABCD, ABCDE and ABCDEF , replace ABC with say #1 etc. and perhaps save a whole lot of space.

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Re:What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion obj... by planck on Friday May 08, 2009 @03:46AM (#599332)

This is also known as the ZIP compression algorithm.

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Re:What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion obj... by webignition on Friday May 08, 2009 @05:03AM (#599389)

But then you might end up not being able to see the forest of data for all the Huffman trees.

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Re:What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion obj... by gaius on Friday May 08, 2009 @09:15AM (#599576)

It's called "deduplication" in databaseland, it's common strategy for tape backups.

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