| From: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
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| To: | Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Seth Grimes <grimes(at)altaplana(dot)com>, "pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Column stores |
| Date: | 2008-02-02 07:18:10 |
| Message-ID: | 47A41932.6030508@cheapcomplexdevices.com |
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Luke Lonergan wrote:
>> ...column stores...
>
> WRT "all the rage" - you'd have to point to more than press releases about
> technology to make that case. We've beaten the "all the rage" companies in
> every POC so far and I haven't seen or heard of significant reference
> installations.
I thought KX System's KDB is a column-oriented database which
had impressive reference customers (Fidelity, BofA, JPMorgan, etc)
with their column store database since the early 90s.
But yeah - I'm curious why all the hype around new column oriented
databases when it seems people already determined what niche
applications they're great for quite some time ago.
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