Re: Netezza: 27TB of PostgreSQL

> Hans-Jurgen Schonig
> 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.co
> m/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.

Agreed. Netezza isn't PostgreSQL anymore.

What Hans-Jurgen means: don't make too much of Netezza being a PostgreSQL
implementation - it isn't ANYMORE. That information doesn't itself need to
be treated carefully.

Good reference for ISVs/embedded market though.... not much use for end user
computing.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs