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Business Intelligence Lowdown has published a list of the ten largest (in the opinion of the authors notes) databases in the world:
1. The World Climate Center (World Data Center for Climate) - 220 terabytes of web data, 6 petabytes of additional data.
2. National Energy Research Computer Computing Center (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) - 2.8 petabytes of data, served by 2000 scientists.
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3. Telecommunications company AT & T - 323 terabytes of data, 1.9 trillion records of phone calls.
4. Google search engine - 91 million search queries per day (50% of all requests on the Internet), 33 trillion records in the database.
5. Sprint telecommunications company - 2.85 trillion lines in the database, 365 million processed calls per day.
6. The largest telephone search engine ChoicePoint - 250 terabytes of personal data, information about 250 million people.
7. YouTube video service - 45 terabytes of video content, 100 million hits per day, 65 thousand daily added clips.
8. Amazon Store - 59 million active users, 42 terabytes of data.
9. The CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency) - several hundred thousand official documents, available in open form, comprehensive statistics on 250 countries.
10. Library of Congress - 130 million objects (books, photos, maps), of which books account for 29 million, 850 kilometers of shelves, 20 terabytes of textual information.