September 24, 2011
Evidently further attempts to get information on this subject would be fruitless, but anyhow:
- Teradata emailed me a couple of months ago saying something like that at that point they could count 16 petabyte-level customers. In response to my repeated requests for clarification, Teradata has explicitly refused to identify the metric used in reaching that conclusion.
- At some point Teradata did something — as per a tweet of his — to convince Neil Raden that they have 20 petabyte-class users.
- That tweet was made around the time that Teradata apparently showed a slide naming big users at the Strata conference (last week).
- If Teradata is counting the way they did three years ago, that count of 16 or 20 or whatever is probably inflated compared to, say, Vertica’s figure of 7 a few months back.
- Even so, it’s obvious — and not just from the eBay example — that Teradata has one of the most scalable analytic DBMS offerings around.