Huge File Support
Did you know c-tree can store more information in a single file than most so-called "enterprise" databases? 18 million terabytes! That’s 18 Exabytes of data.
Terabytes? Peta what? What the Heck is an Exabyte?
c-treeSQL also supports c-tree Plus HUGE files. Volume 22 of the FairCom eNewsletter shows you how: c-tree HUGE File Support with c-treeSQL.
Modest Facts About c-tree Plus HUGE files
Disk Drives
If a disk drive holds one terabyte of data, a single c-tree data file could fill 18 million drives!
Stack your CD's
Did you know it would take a stack of CDs 26,697 miles high to store all of the data c-tree can store in a single file (18,000,000 terabytes or 18 exabytes per file)?
Library of Congress
Could you store all 134,517,714 itemsˆ in the U.S. Library of Congress, in a single c-tree database?
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Books: 20,532,692 × average of 500 pages each × 3,000 characters per page = 30,799 GB
Other Printed Materials: 11,591,309 X 1MB each = 12,154 GB
Special Collections: 102,393,713 × 1MB each = 107,367 GB
=150,320 gigabytes
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In fact, you can store the entire US Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, 119,744 times, in a single c-tree database!
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18,000,000 terabytes / 150,320 gigabytes = 119,744
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All 2006 Data in the World
Last year it was reportedˆˆ the world produced approximately 161 exabytes of data. That fits in less than 9 c-tree data files!
ˆHoldings as of December 31, 2006 reported by the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/about/reports/)
ˆˆBergstein, Brian (March 5, 2007). So much data, relatively little space. BusinessWeek.
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