OT have you looked at hadoop?
[link|http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/|http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/] looks like very interesting tech for write once read lots high volume applications. A database that only contained a path to the information would be fairly quick.
thanx,
bill
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