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jimbokun on March 28, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Can't Wait for NoSQL to Die

Walmart also has a few products they need to track.

pradocchia on March 28, 2010 [–]

...and just a few points-of-sale.

The Wal-Mart data warehouse operation is legendary in the industry. As of 2008, they were running Teradata, w/ 2.5 PB of data:

http://www.dbms2.com/2008/10/15/teradatas-petabyte-power-pla...

By comparison, Facebook had ~2.5 PB in Hadoop/Hive in early 2009:

http://www.dbms2.com/2009/05/11/facebook-hadoop-and-hive/

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