Keeping Google's In-house Database Ticking 79
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has a short but interesting piece on the what Google did with its 12GB database when it became a challenge for the finance department. The database was split into three, says Chris Schulze, technical program manager for Google — one for the current financial planning projections, one for the actual current data from existing HR and general ledger systems, and one storing historic information. The article says Google has been using a variety of products from Hyperion (recently bought by Oracle) to manage its internal financial systems since 2001."
Only 12 GB? (Score:5, Funny)
Err..yeah...it's really a Hyperion ad (Score:4, Funny)
ZDNet has a short but interesting piece
Interesting to whom, precisely? Hyperion's marketing department? Scant technical details and really only notable for the link to the photos of Google's new Sydney office which are kind of interesting, I suppose, in an "ooh wow shiny...okay what's next?" kind of way.
Re:Only 12GB? (Score:5, Funny)
Google.
12 GB is not 12 gigs. (Score:5, Funny)
* Note that GoogleBytes are still in beta and therefore the exact amount of storage in a single GB is yet to be determined.
Re:It's Google (Score:3, Funny)
It's not tricky, you just have to be really really fast!
You think GB Stands for Gigabytes!? (Score:3, Funny)