Winter Corp has published a white paper titled "Spotlight on Oracle - Key Findings from the 2005 WinterCorp Top Ten Program", which measured the world's largest databases. The report can be downloaded from Oracle.com here.Some of the highlights of the paper are:
- The largest data warehouse runs on Oracle
- The largest scientific data warehouse runs on Oracle
- It is unlikely that any database vendor's product is as omnipresent as Oracle in the VLDB arena
- In both the 2003 and 2005 TopTen surveys, all ten databases in the UNIX OLTP workload category run Oracle
- Oracle is the only database with a showing in the survey, and a strong one at that, across UnIX, Windows, and Linux platforms
- Nine of the ten largest UNIX OLTP systems run Oracle
