Library of Congress
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130 million items (books, photographs, maps, etc)
29 million books
10,000 new items added each day
530 miles of shelves
5 million digital documents
20 terabytes of text data
Central Intelligence Agency
100 FOIA items added each month
Comprehensive statistics on more than 250 countries and entities
Unknown number of classified information
Amazon
59 million active customers
More than 42 terabytes of data
YouTube
100 million videos watched per day
65,000 videos added each day
60% of all videos watched online
At least 45 terabytes of videos
ChoicePoint
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ChoicePoint is in the business of acquiring information about the American population -- addresses and phone numbers, driving records, criminal histories, etc., ChoicePoint has it all. For the most part, the data found in ChoicePoint's database is sold to the highest bidders, including the American government.
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250 terabytes of personal data
Information on 250 million people
Sprint
2.85 trillion database rows.
365 million call detail records processed per day
At peak, 70,000 call detail record insertions per second
Google
91 million searches per day
accounts for 50% of all internet searches
Virtual profiles of countless number of users
AT&T
323 terabytes of information
1.9 trillion phone call records
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
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The second largest database in the world belongs to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in Oakland, California. NERSC is owned and operated by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy. The database is privy to a host of information including atomic enegry research, high energy physics experiements, simulations of the early universe and more. Perhaps our best bet at traveling back in time is to fire up NERSC's supercomputers and observe the big bang.
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2.8 petabytes of data
Operated by 2,000 computational scientists
World Data Centre for Climate
220 terabytes of web data
6 petabytes of additional data
More:
http://www.focus.com/fyi/operations/10-largest-databases-in-the-world/There is more info about each database at the site.
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Gah!