Re: Are we the first OSS database with parallel query?

On 08/29/2016 11:46 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:41:48AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> On 08/29/2016 11:39 AM, David Fetter wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 08:41:15PM -0400, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>> I suspect not, but I can't think of another example right now.
>>>
>>> There are a fair number that beat us to that punch (GPDB, HadoopDB,
>>> etc.)
>>
>> Do they have parallel query on a single node?  I suppose you can have
>> multiple shards-per-node, but that's still a different feature.
>
> I don't know of one offhand, but that distinction seems like a *VERY*
> thin slice to be claiming.

Yeah, it's certainly not terribly marketable. "First non-sharded
parallel query".

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Josh Berkus
Red Hat OSAS
(any opinions are my own)