TomTom's traffic database contains more than six trillion data measurements and is growing by five billion measurements every day.
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Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
An example is a business with a high-traffic, database-based web site.
Traffic to the database has been reduced dramatically deadlocks are much less likely to occur with fewer locks on the database.
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At the same time ATSAC builds a rich database of historical traffic statistics used to adjust the timing of signals and to tweak intersection configurations across the system.
After delving into the anomaly we found a similar but smaller matching traffic anomaly from one of our databases in the opposite direction (more traffic was sent from the database compared to what was received on the server).
It says investigators can "request the entire database" of Internet traffic "in real time" by entering keywords, email addresses or the names of file attachments as search queries.
Yet since Boston.com began using Zvents technology in January 2007 the number of events in its database has gone up fourfold, and traffic to the events content increased eightfold.
Assuming that all drivers who own smartphones have enabled data-sharing, all those endpoints drifting around in traffic are sending a stream of coordinates to a central database in real time.
Once a parcel of land has been selected, McDonald's enters into its database information about that area's demographics and traffic patterns.
The plan initially suggested when Labour was in government was for a giant database to store the details of all mobile phone calls and internet traffic, such as who called who, or who emailed who when, but not the content of the phone calls or emails.
FBI's crime database in the hope that the police will identify and collar them if they stop them for traffic offences.
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