From: | "Jonathan Nalley" <jnalley(at)fgp(dot)com> |
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To: | "David B" <davidb999(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Any examples of companies using PG in high volume |
Date: | 2005-03-23 22:22:06 |
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you'll probably find some answers in the comments of a similar Slashdot post:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/21/1635210
Check out http://advocacy.postgresql.org
Two other examples are Whitepages.com (375GB) and the .org registry as well.
On Wed, March 23, 2005 17:07, David B said:
> I've been looking for examples of high volume (in terms of throughput)
> and large scale (500GB-terabtype+) examples of Postgres
> impllmenetations.
>
> I keep seeing the same few examples (BASF, Los Alamos Labs, Futijsu
> and .info administrator). Impossible to tell anything from the names.
> .info administrator might be dealing with 100 transactions per
> hour...or per second. Not seen anything on that. And a few hundred
> .info records may add up to less than 1GB.
>
> I've seen nothing showing real world numbers in terms of hourly/daily
> transactions activity and nothing showing how large the databases
> really are.
>
>>From experience I've come to seek clarification of the meaning of
> statements such as "we have a hugh database". One persons hugh is 1GB
> while another's is 100GB while another's is 1TB+. And as one who has
> dealt with TB+ in Oracle the issues are way different.
>
> Can any of you suggest some companies I can point to as I try to
> convince my company to move to it. We will be storing 100's GB of
> data.
>
> tia
> David
>
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