Re: White paper on very big databases

If you're willing to consider hybrids/hacked versions based on PostgreSQL, then look at Aaron Harsh's presentation
aboutRentrak's TV ad viewing/media monitoring database ... search Youtube on those names and it'll come up as first hit
(called"Is your RDBMS letting you down?").  Their DB is petabyte scale, but it is a heavily modified version of pg. 

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Fuzzy
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Jean-Paul Argudo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm planning to write a white paper telling the world that yes it's
> possible to manager terabytes of data with PostgreSQL.
>
> The idea is to explain how PostgreSQL can manage this, what's the
> infrastructure needed to do so. We have to tell everyone that yes it's
> possible.
>
> I know many places where the existence of this white paper would have
> been of real interest when PostgreSQL face detractors, let's say
> pro-my-favorite-commercial-database (replace
> "my-favorite-commercial-database" with every commercial RDBS name...).
>
> In france, we have at least one place using a 4 Tb database, the
> national forecast company (Meteo France).
>
> I'm sure we all know other places in the world, I'd like then to digest
> all those examples and tell the world "look how they do at X and Y:
> architecture number one", "look like the do it at W and Z: architecture
> number two", etc...
>
> So I'm asking everyone willing to work with me on this topic.
>
> The study has to be based on real usecases, so, the first thing is that
> every usecase may become of public knowledge. So I don't want someone
> telling me "we have 5 Tb here, we do it this way.. but shhh don't tell
> my name". This will not work, because detractors may say everything in
> the study is wrong, false and pro-PostgreSQL...
>
> So if you have any comments regarding this project, its time to say it
> here!
>
> I'll be at FOSDEM this night, until sunday. Be sure I'm open for any
> discussion there, and by mail, off course.
>
> Cheers!
>