| From: | Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au> |
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| To: | Juan Bru <juan_bru(at)yahoo(dot)es> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: COLUMNAR postgreSQL ? |
| Date: | 2011-09-20 10:58:55 |
| Message-ID: | 4E7871EF.9030605@ringerc.id.au |
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On 09/20/2011 03:48 PM, Juan Bru wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there any plan to develop a PostgreSQL Columnar release?
>
> I'm a researcher in the scope of Health (computer scientist, DBA
> background), used to work very well with PostgrSQL. Recently I'm
> facing analysis on 100M record tables so a columnar database could be
> a better option, but I would like to stay using postgreSQL.
>
To what extent would your needs be satisfied by a covering index or
index-oriented table?
That is: Are you doing deep data mining where you have LOTS of different
columns you're interested in finding patterns in, or do you only have a
few important columns you need to retrieve most of the time, plus a lot
of less-used data?
--
Craig Ringer
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