SQL Server Customers Achieve World-Class Results and Recognition
SQL Server Demonstrates Phenomenal Growth
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Winter Corporation’s Spotlight on SQL Server
Key Findings from the 2005 WinterCorp Top Ten Program. “The 2005 results reveal significant strengths for Microsoft SQL Server in the very large database (VLDB) market for both data warehouse (DW) and transaction processing (OLTP) systems.”
Overview
Winter Corporation’s 2005 TopTen Survey solidifies the growing position of SQL Server as the data management platform of the world’s largest and most heavily used databases. SQL Server customers showed up in greater numbers with impressive increases in database volumes and row counts—with phenomenal growth over 2003. Forty-three survey entries, or 25 percent of all survey entries, of more than 1 terabyte use SQL Server. This was the largest showing ever and included eight databases of more than 5 terabytes.
| Comparing Winter Corporation’s 2003 and 2005 TopTen Surveys | ||
| 2005 Results | 2003 Results | |
Number of terabytes + entries (> 1 terabyte) | 43 | 15 |
Number of terabytes - size entries (> 0.5 terabyte) | 50 | 19 |
Number of data warehousing entries | 21 | 4 |
Number of online transaction processing (OLTP) entries | 22 | 13 |
Number of OLTP entries in TopTen categories for all platforms | 6 | 1 |
Number of data warehousing entries in TopTen categories for all platforms | 2 | 0 |
Number of data warehousing entries in database size TopTen for Windows | 7 | 1 |
SQL Server is largest entry in database size TopTen for Windows | Yes | No |
SQL Server Dominates the Windows Platform Wins
| • | For online transaction processing (OLTP) by database size: eight of the top 10, including the top four. |
| • | For OLTP by database rows: nine of the top 10, including the top five. |
| • | For data warehousing by database size: seven of the top 10, including the top two. |
| • | For data warehousing by database rows: seven of the top 10, including four of the top five. |
Great Progress in World-Class Rankings
| • | Third largest OLTP database in the world, by rows |
| • | Sixth, seventh, and tenth largest OLTP databases in the world by volume run on SQL Server |
| • | Eighth largest data warehousing database in the world |
| • | 65 percent of all SQL Server entries are at 2 terabytes or larger |
SQL Server Explodes on to Data Warehousing Scene
| • | Largest data warehousing entry at 19.5 terabytes
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| • | Two data warehousing entries more than 10 terabytes
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| • | The largest showing ever:
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About Winter Corporation and the TopTen Survey
Winter Corporation is an independent consulting firm that focuses on database scalability and enterprise data management. The Winter TopTen Program is a survey that identifies the world's largest and most powerful databases and the products and vendors who support them. The program identifies the top 10 OLTP and decision support system (DSS) databases in database size, row size, and workload for Windows, Unix, and all environments. View the entire 2005 Survey results.