| From: | Robby Russell <robby(at)planetargon(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: table size/record limit |
| Date: | 2004-10-21 08:41:27 |
| Message-ID: | 1098348087.6256.46.camel@vacant |
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On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 23:01 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Dennis Gearon wrote:
>
> > Google probably is much bigger, and on mainframes, and probably Oracle
> > or DB2.
>
> Google uses a Linux cluster and there database is HUGE. I do not know
> which database
> they use. I bet they built their own specifically for what they do.
...actually, I heard they were running it off a flat file database on 7
386 machines in some guys garage off a dsl connection. I could be wrong
though. ;-)
-Robby
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