RE: [HACKERS] What I do with PostgreSQL

[Darren King]

>> I am pumping about 200gb a week through the pg database,
>> and our estimated database size is something like 4tb by
>> the end of the year.
>
> Can anyone say 'Woof!'?

Amen, Lamar.  I was trying to think of something myself besides
'Wow!'...

As a side note, there's a blurb in the July 16, 2001 Interactive Week
about the MySQL AB vs NuSphere spat and the last paragraph of the
article casts a very favorable nod towards PostgreSQL.

I quote (any typos are mine) ...

"Analysts said MySQL must find a way to generate a development community
and support if it wants to compete with another open source database,
PostgreSQL, distributed by Red Hat and Great Bridge."

Article doesn't say who the "analysts" are, but the implication that
MySQL isn't up to competing with PostgreSQL was interesting to my eyes!
:)

Darren


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Re: [HACKERS] What I do with PostgreSQL

[Lamar Owen]

On Monday 16 July 2001 14:48, alex avriette wrote:
> Our hardware is a cluster of 3 ultra 10's, a pair of 700-dvd jukeboxes
> (with burners), a 2.5tb SAN, 10 DAT tape readers, a pair of dvd-roms, and 2
> 200gb disk packs (one for each of our tape-reading suns -- the other one
> manages the DVD jukes). We also run capture on four dell poweredge servers
> running NT. We run the DjVu software on an additional 3 poweredge servers.
> That stuff is NT. The SAN is run on a cluster of 4 sun e 3500's.

> I am pumping about 200gb a week through the pg database, and our estimated
> database size is something like 4tb by the end of the year.

> In some ways, I am amazed that postgres has stood up to the challenge. In
> others, however, I am not in the least surprised. Its a fantastic piece of
> software that requires almost no intervention on my part. I talked to one
> of our oracle dba's about it. He actually (im not kidding here) did not
> believe it could be a database if it did not require maintenance.

Can anyone say 'Woof!'?

This is awesome.  Thank you, Alex, for sharing this testimonial -- your 
database sounds like a serious test of 'scalability' no matter which way you 
slice it.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

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