The amount of data is only growing… 1.2 Zettabytes (1ZB = 1021 B or 1 Billion TB) in 2010. We are actually living in a world of Data! These figures might surprise you but it will go a long way to tell you why databases have become indispensable in our modern world.
- Nearly 500 Exabytes per day are generated by the Large Hadron Collider experiments (not all recorded!)
- 2.9 million emails are sent every second.
- 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
- 24 PBs of data are processed by Google every day.
- 50 million tweets are generated per day.
- 700 billion total minutes are spent on Facebook each month.
- 72.9 items are ordered on Amazon every second.
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