From: | "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> |
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To: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL scaleability question |
Date: | 2005-02-19 16:40:35 |
Message-ID: | 42176C03.1050502@zeut.net |
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Christopher Browne wrote:
>Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when mary(dot)y(dot)wang(at)boeing(dot)com ("Wang, Mary Y") would write:
>
>
>>I have been using PostgreSQL for my project repository, because it
>>is free and easy to use. My manager is trying to decide if he
>>should use a commerical database such as Oracle or PostgreSQL for a
>>gaint information repository for the corporate. He asked me what is
>>the scaleability on PostgreSQL. I don't have the answer. So far, I
>>have been very pleased with PostgreSQL, but I'm only using it for my
>>project.
>>
>>Does anyone have any information on this? Has anyone done any
>>comparsions?
>>
>>
>
>It is very difficult to evaluate such things absent of actually doing
>simulations of the kind of load you intend to put on your systems.
>
That said, there are lots of people running extremely large data
repositories with PostgreSQL, if you search the archives you can
probably find some examples.
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