MariaDB AX Helps IHME Manage Multi- Billion Row Tables CASE STUDY DS-RDBA-01203017 © MariaDB 2017 Challenge: Exponential Growth Pushes Storage Engine to the Limit Commissioned by the World Bank in the 1990s, the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project, led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), serves as the most comprehensive effort to date to measure disability and death from a multitude of causes worldwide. Today, the study has grown into an international consortium of more than 2,300 researchers from more than 130 countries – and its estimates are being updated annually. As a result of GBD’s continued growth, the data requirements have been scaling rapidly: In 2010, there were approximately 2 billion data points By 2015, there were nearly 100 billion data

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