Like Magic Rocks, his initial tiny database of three or four e-mail addresses grew tenfold, seemingly overnight.
While the big three make bloated and heavy-duty databases, Pervasive makes "ultra light" or tiny databases, which are included as features of a larger software product.
By owning its servers and being able to bundle even more applications, Oracle poses far more of a threat to the enterprise market than to the future of a tiny open-source database company.
However, this portion of the market is still a tiny percentage of the overall database management market.
Their database consists of a tiny fraction of that collected by services like Last.fm or The Echo Nest, the music data service where Jam began as a skunkworks product and which still owns a small stake in the company.
It seems that even a bill signed into law by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2011, which ostensibly did away with our stop-and-frisk database, is but a tiny step in a very long journey for the civil liberties of America's urban males.
If we were justifying our expense as analogous to building a database of emails, then it was a database that only allowed you to access a tiny, randomly selected, subset each time it was used.
For example, although there are approximately 56,000 sequencing projects listed in the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) [ 10], this only reflects a tiny part of the total microbial biodiversity, which is estimated to have more than 10 million species [ 11].
The database contained more than 2,700 names as of Friday, a tiny fraction of the estimated total number of detainees.
Wolfram's databases currently store only 10 terabytes of information, a tiny fraction of what is on the Web.
