RE: I'd like to discuss scaleout at PGCon

> From: Konstantin Knizhnik [mailto:k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru]
> I can not completely agree with it. I have done a lot of benchmarking of
> PostgreSQL, CitusDB, SparkSQL and native C/Scala code generated for
> TPC-H queries.

Wow, you have an amazingly abundant experience.

> I do not want to say that it is not possible to implement good analytic
> platform for OLAP on top of Postgres. But it is very challenged task.
> And IMHO choice of programming language is not so important. What is
> more important is format of storing data. The bast systems for data
> analytic: Vartica, HyPer, KDB,...
> are using vertical data mode. SparkSQL is also using Parquet file format
> which provides efficient extraction and processing of data.
> With abstract storage API Postgres is also given a chance to implement
> efficient storage for OLAP data processing. But huge amount of work has
> to be done here.

Agreed on huge amount of work... And I must admit my dream is a pipedream now.

Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa