Sun Joins Sybase, BMMsoft in Breaking World Record for Largest Data Warehouse
Thursday, May 15th, 2008The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as part of the world’s largest data warehouse. This high-end powerhouse server running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) with Sun StorageTek 6540 modular disk arrays, known as the Sun Data Warehouse Reference Architecture, combined with Sybase IQ and BMMsoft server to accomplish the feat.
The world-record breaking data warehouse is certified to support an unprecedented one petabyte of mixed relational and unstructured data - more than 34 times larger than the largest industry standard benchmark and twice the size of the largest commercial data warehouse known to date. In total, the data warehouse contains six trillion rows of transactional data and more than 185 million content-searchable documents, such as emails, reports, spreadsheets and other multimedia objects.
The winning combination enables more data to be stored in less space, searched and analyzed in less time, while consuming 91 percent less energy and generating less heat and carbon dioxide than conventional solutions.
“Sun’s SPARC Enterprise servers are the workhorses of the
datacenter, ably handling mission-critical applications including ERP, BIDW and large-scale OLTP,” said Bob McGaughey, senior director, Enterprise Servers, Sun. “The Guinness World Record proves that Sun’s data warehouse solution delivers advanced virtualization and consolidation capabilities with the extreme scalability and efficiency to handle the most demanding enterprise workloads.”
