Re: Huge number of raws

Anton Nikiforov пишет:

> Dear All!
> I have a question about how the PostgreSQL will manage a huge number
> of raws.
> I have a projet where each half an hour 10 millions of records will be
> added to the database and they should be calculated, summarized and
> managed.
> I'm planning to have a few servers that will receive something like a
> million records per server and then they will store this data into the
> centeral server in report-ready format.
> I know that one million records could be managed by postgres (i have a
> database with 25 millions of records and it is working just fine)
> But i'm worry about mentioned centeral database that should store 240
> millions of records daily and should collect this data for years.
> I cannot even imagine the needed hardware to collect monthly
> statistics. And my question is - is this task is for postgres, or i
> should think about Oracle or DB2?
> I'm also thinking about replication of data between two servers for
> redundancy, what you could suggst for this?
> And the data migration problem is still an opened issue for me - how
> to make data migration from fast devices (RAID ARRAY) to slower
> devices (MO Library or something like this) still having access to
> this data?
>
And one more question - is there in postgress something like table
partitioning in Oracle to store data according to the some rules, like a
group of data source (IP network or something)?

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Best regads,
Anton Nikiforov