Re: Examples of Large Datasets on Postgres?

On 2 October 2013 19:32, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> Don,
>
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction? I realize I'm preaching
> among
> > evangelists on this list, but maybe some of the folks here know someone
> who
> > might be willing to talk?
>
> A few off the top of my head:
>
> Instagram had over 20TB of data in PostgreSQL at acquisition time per
> their presentation; no doubt they have more, now.
>
> Comptel's cell call tracking database for the EU had up to 75TB per city
> for 20+ cities.
>
> There's a marketing company in Australia which had over 200TB of data in
> PostgreSQL -- I can't recall the name right now.
>
> The Mormon Tabernacle's entire geneology database is in PostgreSQL; not
> sure how big that is, but it covers over 200m individuals.
>
> I don't know that anyone has petabytes on vanilla PostgreSQL; we don't
> do well at that scale. GreenPlum, Aster, etc. yes, but not mainstream
> Postgres. However, nobody has petabytes on mainstream Oracle either.
>
>
Hi Josh,
I think it should be promoted on the website. Many managers in huge
companies don't know that and are afraid of using Postgres, I used to hear
for years that "I'm afraid of switching to Postgres, as nobody uses that,
and if they use it, there are just some toy projects".

Szymon