| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jean-Paul Argudo <jean-paul(at)postgresqlfr(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: White paper on very big databases |
| Date: | 2009-02-06 20:07:36 |
| Message-ID: | 1233950856.15061.59.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 21:23 -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Joshua D. Drake
> <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Well therein lies the problem. CMD has a customer with a
> multi-terrabyte
> table (not including the rest of the database) but we can't
> really talk
> about it :(
>
> IIRC, EnterpriseDB had one customer with over 1TB of data, but they
> too would have been hush-hush about it. When I was consulting, I saw
> very few Postgres databases at or over 1TB. While Postgres can handle
> fairly large data sets, it lacks some fairly important VLDB features
> which is probably why there are so few people with multi-terabyte PG
> databases. Perhaps JD/Fetter know of more, but I can count the ones I
> know of at < 10.
I know of a lot more than that.
Joshua D. Drake
>
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