From: | Hans-Juergen Schoenig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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To: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, 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: | 2009-02-09 19:00:47 |
Message-ID: | 49907D5F.8090401@cybertec.at |
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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
> <mailto: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.
>
> --
> Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
> myYearbook.com
>
hello everybody,
i know GIS databases which are ways bigger than 1 TB.
the biggest one i have seen personally recently was around 8 TB.
i had my hands on a 12 TB biest 3 years ago.
for the database size is not the real problem; the problem is rather
getting stuff in.
for most people the question is: is there anything we could still store
which would finally end up being 12 TB or more :). 80% of all people
will never get there even if they store every little movement everywhere :).
hans
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