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Taobao.com Runs China's Busiest Data Warehouse on 20 Node Database Cluster

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Overview Founded in 2003 by Alibaba.com, Taobao.com is Asia's largest online shopping Web site. The company engages in Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C) and Business-To-Consumer (B2C) trading and has a 70% share of the online market in China. Taobao.com has used Oracle Database and clusterware products since 2004, building an enterprise data warehouse to process and analyze business and customer data.

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Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Database Applications

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