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To: J L Segal who wrote (247)	4/23/1998 12:16:00 PM
From: Mark Finger	of 304

>>Endorsements from Co's such as AOL & Amazon.com (who obviously have >>enormous data warehousing needs) can only help REDB capture more >>"high profile" customers. I know that the Amazon contract is supposed to be for a terabyte warehouse. However, I would like to ask the real size of this relative to some other very large warehouses. This would be true even if they recorded every sale during the last year or two at every store. Consider these other installations: The MCI Friends and Family warehouse is sifting through every long-distance call for their customers. The raw/processed data (duplicates and bad data removed) is a little more than 1 Terabyte. Consider that most people make far more long-distance calls than they buy books. IFMX is the vendor. Teradata has the big WalMart warehouse, comprising 2-4T of raw data. They store 5 quarters of data, for every store and every product. I believe the data is summary for a week (or maybe a day), rather than by individual transaction. I just use these two to point out the actual amount of data to really generate 1T of raw data in a terabyte warehouse. It would not seem that Amazon and AOL would be in the same league.

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