On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:34:29AM +0100, Ramon Bastiaans wrote: > Hi all, > > I am doing research for a project of mine where I need to store several > billion values for a monitoring and historical tracking system for a big > computer system. My currect estimate is that I have to store (somehow) > around 1 billion values each month (possibly more).
On a side-note, do you need to keep the actual row-level details for history? http://rrs.decibel.org might be of some use. Other than that, what others have said. Lots and lots of disks in RAID10, and opterons (though I would choose opterons not for memory size but because of memory *bandwidth*). -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
