Huge File Support

Did you know c-tree can store more information in a single file than most so-called "enterprise" databases? 18 million terabytes! That's 18 Exabytes of data.

Terabytes? Peta what? What the Heck is an Exabyte?

c-treeSQL also supports c-tree Plus HUGE files. Volume 22 of the FairCom eNewsletter shows you how: c-tree HUGE File Support with c-treeSQL.

Modest Facts About c-tree Plus HUGE files

Disk Drives

If a disk drive holds one terabyte of data, a single c-tree data file could fill 18 million drives!

Stack your CD's

Did you know it would take a stack of CDs 26,697 miles high to store all of the data c-tree can store in a single file (18,000,000 terabytes or 18 exabytes per file)?

Library of Congress

Could you store all 134,517,714 itemsˆ in the U.S. Library of Congress, in a single c-tree database?

In fact, you can store the entire US Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, 119,744 times, in a single c-tree database!

All 2006 Data in the World

Last year it was reportedˆˆ the world produced approximately 161 exabytes of data. That fits in less than 9 c-tree data files!

ˆHoldings as of December 31, 2006 reported by the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/about/reports/)

ˆˆBergstein, Brian (March 5, 2007). So much data, relatively little space. BusinessWeek.