Re: White paper on very big databases

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 21:23 -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Joshua D. Drake
> <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>         Well therein lies the problem. CMD has a customer with a
>         multi-terrabyte
>         table (not including the rest of the database) but we can't
>         really talk
>         about it :(
>
> IIRC, EnterpriseDB had one customer with over 1TB of data, but they
> too would have been hush-hush about it.  When I was consulting, I saw
> very few Postgres databases at or over 1TB.  While Postgres can handle
> fairly large data sets, it lacks some fairly important VLDB features
> which is probably why there are so few people with multi-terabyte PG
> databases.  Perhaps JD/Fetter know of more, but I can count the ones I
> know of at < 10.

I know of a lot more than that.

Joshua D. Drake

>
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