Re: Postgres and data warehouses

I strongly suspect many would like further details on your implementation. A user conference session well recorded perhaps?

> On Mar 8, 2015, at 4:57 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On 3/8/2015 7:40 AM, Nigel Gardiner wrote:
>> I'm looking at making a data warehouse to address our rapidly spiralling report query times against the OLTP. I'm looking first at what it would take to make this a real-time data warehouse, as opposed to batch-driven.
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> we use a hybrid architecture. we have a 'republisher' process that repeatedly slurps new data from the OLTP database and sends it to the back end databases, using a 'publish/subscribe' messaging bus. several back end databases subscribe to this data, and their subscriber processes insert the incoming data into those OLAP and various other reporting databases. this way the reporting databases can have completely different schemas optimized for their needs, and have different retention requirements than the OLTP database.
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> this republisher is usually within a few seconds of live new data. in our case its made fairly easy to track 'new' because all our OLTP transactions are event-oriented.
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