To fill the void, RainStor has built a database platform that handles unimaginable amounts of information.

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Google, for example, has come under fire in the past for the way it handles a massive database of user search data.

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Amazon's s3 storage service now handles 30, 000 requests to its database per second.

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It handles 25, 000 to 50, 000 changes to its database weekly, taxing 250 programmers in Wadhwani's native India.

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In addition, while Exadata handles all workloads in one system, IBM has come out with 3 separate database platforms based upon varying workloads.

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But Shibboleth handles all the identification and authentication of users in between the school and the database, thus reducing the complexity of management and protecting the privacy of individual users.

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