What's better: one huge database or several smaller ones?

From: dharana <dharana(at)gamersmafia(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: What's better: one huge database or several smaller ones?
Date: 2003-03-25 20:31:58
Message-ID: 3E80BCBE.3000205@gamersmafia.com
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I'm planning to develop a website network with n network nodes. There
will be a central node (website) wich will summarize information from
all the network nodes. It will be also possible to use data between
nodes (node A showing own data + data from node B). Table structures
between nodes will be identical. So my question is: what should i do,
put all the data in one huge database or spread it in several nearly
identical databases?

Data generated will grow at a rate of ~ 250Mb/year; 10000 rows per table
(size is physical space of /var/lib/postgres/data after vacuum analyze,
this dir contains only one database).

Thank you in advance,

dharana

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