Re: Scalability (both vertical and horizontal)?

scott.marlowe wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Duffey, Kevin wrote:
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>>We are looking for information regarding any capabilities of PostgreSQL
>>in regards to scalability. Ideally we want to be able to scale in both
>>directions. What sort of solutions are out there for either or both
>>directions of scalability? Specifically, open-source solutions would be
>>most in need, but commercial applications are fine as well.
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>As for horizontal scaling, you could look at ERserver for that.  Setup one
>master writer and a bunch of slave boxes to handle the majority of the
>queries.  There's not been a bunch of work into horizontal scaling really,
>with most of the clustering software for postgresql aiming at failover /
>high availability, not massive parallelization of read and / or writes.
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Are there any databases that do well in horizontal scaling? What really
*IS* Oracle Real Application Clusters?