Re: commercial adaptation of postgres

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Dennis Gearon<gearond(at)sbcglobal(dot)net> wrote:
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> I once talked to a company that made a custome version of Postgres. It split tables up on columns and also by rows, had some other custome features. It was enormously faster from what I gathered.

Faster at some things :-). column oriented db is a tradeoff...it's
less work to get one or two columns but your record is not guaranteed
to be in one place on disk...which has obvious downsides. I don't
have any evidence other than my gut, but I betcha column db being an
'evolutionary step' above current methods is mostly hype. However for
certain workloads I'm sure it's great...

merlin