What are some of the biggest challenges to adoption of petabyte-range database technology at this point?
Strange: You have to separate different areas such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehouse decision support. There are different sets of challenges. Dealing with OLTP, the whole idea of manageability is still a challenge. Vendors have worked on improving their databases to support the higher end, but when you start talking about petabytes and OLTP types of implementations, we’re probably years away before we’re even going to see that. The whole idea with manageability is to be able to deal with a smaller piece of the picture, and you’ll end up with a huge amount of these pieces if you’re looking at petabytes. In the data warehouse arena, the real challenge there is optimizing queries that go against that size of a database. Right now, organizations are implementing terabyte size architecture, and the vendors are struggling to optimize queries against that size. So, there’s a manageability and performance issue on the decision-support side of the house. I’m not sure t
