Re: Examples of Large Datasets on Postgres?

From: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Don Parris <parrisdc(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Examples of Large Datasets on Postgres?
Date: 2013-10-04 15:17:42
Message-ID: CAB8KJ=gg=nB2piw1tYWjKmBSnhngXuj4aLO4Ccb019jNC96feA@mail.gmail.com
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2013/10/3 Don Parris <parrisdc(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I believe this relates primarily to advocacy, so am posting here. I would
> like to find examples of organizations running large datasets on PostgreSQL.
> The last survey on this (that I can find) is from 2004
> (http://www.postgresql.org/community/survey/26-how-large-is-your-postgresql-database/)
>
> I have also seen this example from 2008:
> http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/oracle-guide/worlds-largest-database-runs-on-postgres-24979

I can't provide details right now, but I'll be giving a talk at the
Japan PostgreSQL conference in November [1] about my employer's recent
Oracle -> PostgreSQL migration and will be making the material
available in English after that. The dataset is "only" a few TB
(albeit growing).

[1] http://www.postgresql.jp/events/jpug-pgcon2013/#A1

Regards

Ian Barwick

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