What is the Winter TopTen Program?
The Winter TopTen Program surveys users of large databases to understand the characteristics of the world’s largest databases and the practices of the companies that build and operate them. Participants complete an online questionnaire about the size and complexity of their large databases, their hardware and software environment and configuration, the benefits derived, the problems encountered, and the expectations for growth their users have of these databases. (View the 2005 TopTen Survey.) In addition, respondents are required to validate key database scalability metrics by running database scripts to collect internal database statistics. Some of these metrics are published in TopTen lists on the WinterCorp web site. The goals of the Winter TopTen program are to provide vendor-independent information that tracks the changing frontier of large database scalability and that describes some of the practices of the owners and operators of the world’s largest databases. See the TopTen Pr
