As far as the database goes, with decent hardware DB2 9.5 will have you covered [1]. And, should you become truly huge, it can exceed your requirements by a lon

As far as the database goes, with decent hardware DB2 9.5 will have you covered [1]. And, should you become truly huge, it can exceed your requirements by a long shot, provided that some serious hardware is employed [2]. [1] http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/11/04/benchmarking-db2-purexml-against-1-tb-of-xml-data/ http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/11/04/benchmarking-db2-purex... [2] http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=108061001 http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=10...