database size

[Mara]

I have around 80 tables, two of them historical tables which are estimated to grow up to 4G/month. Beside that I have some BLOB fields containing pictures, so those tables can also grow a lot. No of concurent users is no more than 10.
Overall, the database can grow up to 55 G.
Is that database considered big?
Thanx

[marist89]

Big is a relative term. To me, 55G is very small. A couple of years ago, the term VLDB (very large database) was used with DBs of 100G or more. Today, I consider a 1TB database VLDB.

[rcaballe]

Yes :D
I would recommend Partitioning.

[bberg@rtnyc.com]

I recommend you store those BLOB columns in a separate tablespace, since they are probably stored out of line anyway (if they are over 4k).

This will also allow for more space in the original table(s).