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Según el dogma de que la información es poder, las empresas o entidades
que posean las mayores registros de información tendrán su cuota
proporcional de control sobre nuestro mundo. En Business Intelligence
Lowdown han hecho una lista de las 10 mayores bases de datos del mundo.

10. Library of Congress

By the Numbers

• 130 million items (books, photographs, maps, etc)
  
• 29 million books
  
• 10,000 new items added each day
  
• 530 miles of shelves
  
• 5 million digital documents
  
• 20 terabytes of text data
  

9. Central Intelligence Agency

By the Numbers

• 100 FOIA items added each month
  
• Comprehensive statistics on more than 250 countries and entities
  
• Unknown number of classified information
  

8. Amazon

By the Numbers

• 59 million active customers
  
• More than 42 terabytes of data
  

7. YouTube

By the Numbers

• 100 million videos watched per day
  
• 65,000 videos added each day
  
• 60% of all videos watched online
  
• At least 45 terabytes of videos
  

6. ChoicePoint

By the Numbers

• 250 terabytes of personal data
  
• Information on 250 million people
  

5. Sprint

By the Numbers

• 2.85 trillion database rows.
  
• 365 million call detail records processed per day
  
• At peak, 70,000 call detail record insertions per second
  

4. Google

By the Numbers

• 91 million searches per day
  
• accounts for 50% of all internet searches
  
• Virtual profiles of countless number of users
  

3. AT&T

By the Numbers

• 323 terabytes of information
  
• 1.9 trillion phone call records
  

2. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

By the Numbers

• 2.8 petabytes of data
  
• Operated by 2,000 computational scientists
  

1. World Data Centre for Climate

By the Numbers

• 220 terabytes of web data
  
• 6 petabytes of additional data
  

* Additional Databases

The following databases were unique (and massive) in their own right, and just fell short of the cut on our top 10 list.

• Nielsen Media Research / Nielsen Net Ratings
• Myspace
• United States Customs
• HPSS

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