Yahoo! to have a petabyte index

Several years ago, Google and Yahoo! fought over which company had the largest website index. Google delivered the results with an index three times the size of Yahoo!’s directory in 2005.

Yahoo! is now seeking recognition for its latest accomplishments, Yahoo! have claimed that they own the largest SQL database within a production environment. This is the first time that a Petabyte and over SQL database has been put into production.

By the year 2010 Yahoo! will be aiming at using tens of petabytes within their SQL server. To put the size into prospective, one petabyte equals one thousand terabytes, one terabyte is one thousand gigabytes, and so-forth. I’m sure the majority of you have heard of Mega, Kilo and Giga bytes but not Tera or Peta Bytes.

Hasan explains why this vast database system has been implemented.

The amount of data that we get is much more than the traditional industry and even in the Internet space is significantly more than other large players. The reason for this, he explained, is that consumers spend twice as long on Yahoo! as they do at Google and three times as long on Yahoo! as they do at Microsoft’s sites.

Yahoo! will hopefully use this data to give the best possible experience to its consumers. The system will also increase profits for advertisers. Let’s hope Yahoo! can create even more possibilities from their database engine.

S.Whiston
SEO Programmer

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1 Comment

1. Users spend twice as long on Yahoo! as they do on Google because Google actually gives you the results you’re looking for quicker. It takes longer to use Yahoo! because it’s full of spam.

   That’s like 118 118 saying that callers spend longer talking to them than they do to other directory services. It’s hardly a selling point.

   Come and use Yahoo! It’ll take you much longer to find what you want than Google.

   Comment by Darren Jamieson May 28, 2008 @ 9:05 am

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