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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dpg" data-source="post: 312159" data-attributes="member: 7030">Additional DatabasesNielsen Media Research / Nielsen Net RatingsBest known for its television audience size and composition rating abilities, the U.S. firm Nielsen Media Research is in the business of measuring mass-media audiences including television, radio, print media, and the internet.  The database required to process such statistics as Google's daily internet searches is nothing short of massive.MyspaceIt would seem appropriate that the world's largest social networking site, Myspace, has a rather large database to keep up with all of its user's content.United States CustomsThe U.S. Customs database is unique in that it requires information on hundreds of thousands of people and objects entering and leaving the United States borders instantaneously.  For this to be possible, the database was special programmed to process queries near instantaneously.HPSSThere are various databases around the world using technology similar to that found in our countdown's second largest database NERSC.  The technology is known as High Performance Storage System or HPSS.  Several other massive HPSS databases include Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique Direction des Applications Militaires, and more.</blockquote>

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