On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Actually, I happen to be extremely interested in exactly these
> questions, because I happen to be someone who makes implementation
> decisions about databases that could one day grow into the
> hundreds-of-gigabyte range. I have not yet seen multi-terabyte plain
> text databases though (perhaps the email/fax eavesdroppers at the NSA
> have these, if anyone ;-), these tend more to be filled with images and
> not text.
We have many customers with multi-terabyte databases. Our Japanese
customers in particular have claimed a high percentage of character data
(The rest is almost entirely numeric). Our Unicode (UTF-16)
implementation is criticized as being inefficient in storage relative to
Shift-JIS (which we also support). I suspect a UTF-8 implementation would
be unpopular.
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