Re: Netezza: 27TB of PostgreSQL

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Monday 13 September 2004 13:22, Joe Conway wrote:
>
>>Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
>>
>>>>Thought you'd find this interesting:
>>>>http://www.netezza.com/news/media/META-Spectrum-Netezza.pdf
>>>
>>>Anyone has this pdf? I need it, but could not find it in my hard drive ,
>>>and also in web site of netezza.
>>
>>HTML version from google's cache:
>>
>>http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Fr_E4Ohu6BIJ:www.netezza.com/news/medi
>>a/META-Spectrum-Netezza.pdf+META-Spectrum-Netezza.pdf&hl=en&start=1
>>
>
>
> Heres a copy of the original.
> http://www.netezza.com/analystReports/2004/META-Spectrum-Netezza.pdf
>
> Actually what I thought was also good was
> http://www.netezza.com/media/2004/InformationWeek_021604.pdf
> which highlights a medical groups transition from IBM's Red Brick database to
> Netezza's PostgreSQL based solution for a 1.5 TB data warehouse. It mentions
> that they initially hit a scaleability wall, and then upon switching noticed
> that query times had improoved over thier old solution.
>

Folks,

Please use this information carefully - recent versions of Netezza don't
have much to do with PostgreSQL anymore.
Their original product was BASED on PostgreSQL which does not
necessarily mean that it IS PostgreSQL.
In addition to that they seem to have changed a huge part of the storage
system in order to reduce space consumption (recall, there is not that
much need for concurrency in a warehouse).

Regards,

Hans

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