for TB Astronomy.

• Oracle provides:
• DB Management and Maintenance Tools
• Advanced replication
• CVS can be used as backend
• Workflow Builder
  Requisition Approval Process (pipeline control, VO)
• Oracle Scalability
• Multi TB Third party Proofs-of-Concept (Winter Corp. ,BT )
• Select from Sourcelists
  Return 100,000 tuples out of 40 million tuples in less than a second
• Index creation time as function of # of Sourcelists
• Partitioned Tables
  Index creation time is independent of the number of Sourcelists
  Index creation for an additional Sourcelist takes as much time as ingesting the new Sourcelist
• Oracle Spatial as Associate Tool
• Use SQL for Associating Sources
• Performance
• Astronomical (Spherical) Coordinate Systems