Re: postgres for OLAP & data mining

On 30 September 2011 18:41, Henry Drexler <alonup8tb(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Are you looking for stuff like this?
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> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-window.html
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-string.html
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> Thanks for reply. Yes, I knew these functions. In fact, I was rather
wondering whether there are dedicated packages for OLAP and some guidelines
for configuring postgres (and whether postgres is a good option for OLAP).

Best
Dario

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Dario Beraldi <dario(dot)beraldi(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I'm looking for some information (guidelines, docs, tutorials, etc...)
>> about using postgres for OLAP, data mining, data warehousing. The sort of
>> questions I'm trying to answer are on the lines of
>> - What tools/SQL commands are available?
>> - How should postgres be configured?
>> - How suitable is postgres for these tasks (compared to other databases)?
>>
>> I have done some Google search but I would appreciate any advice/hint from
>> more experienced users.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance!
>>
>> Dario
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