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What was the largest database or dataset you data-mined / analyzed?
[296 votes total] | |
| less than 1 MB (14) |  5% |
| 1.1 to 10 MB (19) | 6% |
| 11 to 100 MB (25) | 8% |
| 101 MB to 1 GB (36) | 12% |
| 1.1 to 10 GB (69) | 23% |
| 11 to 100 GB (37) | 13% |
| 101 GB to 1 Terabyte (TB) (42) | 14% |
| 1.1 to 10 TB (29) | 10% |
| 11 to 100 TB (7) | 2% |
| 101 TB to 1 Petabyte (6) | 2% |
| over 1 Petabyte (12) | 4% |
We can estimate the median answer as 8 - 10 GB (upper end of 1-10 GB range). Also, we note that 32% reported analyzing databases over 100 GB,
and 18% - over 1 Terabyte. New in this poll was a petabyte (1,000,000 GB) range and 12 people had worked with such humongous databases.
In comparison, a similar 2009 poll,
What was the largest database or dataset you data-mined?,
had the median answer in slighly larger 10-20 GB range (probably because fewer people participated).
However, in 2009 only
20% had experience working with over over 100 GB databases, and
only 10% had experience working with over 1 Terabyte databases.
Here is a breakdown of responses by region. Note that Asia and Australia/New Zealand have a higher proportion of terabyte/petabyte data miners than the US and Europe.
Largest Database Data Mined/ Analyzed by region
