Cern plans to store between several hundred terabytes and a few petabytes of data. Over 10 years, the database would need to store 100Pbytes, said Jamie Shiers, database group leader at Cern.
Cern is using Oracle for 20 years now using it to book meeting rooms, manage the network and power e-business operations.
The organisation has transferred 300Tbytes of data from an object database to Linux to Oracle since 2002.
Cern has extended database-clustering technology to enable a single database to run across a number of distributed computers.
The LCG database deployment project has set up a worldwide distributed database infrastructure for the LHC wich currently uses Oracle Streams to capture, filtre and synchronise data from worldwide locations.
Cern also worked with IBM to build a massive Linux-based storage system.
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