Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data
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Msg-id 1237308640.8159.31.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data  (Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>)
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On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 17:44 +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Harald Armin Massa, 17.03.2009 15:00:
> > That is: what table size would you or anybody consider really, really
> > large actually?
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> I recently attended and Oracle training by Tom Kyte and he said (partially joking though) that a database is only
largewhen the size is measured in terrabytes :)  
>
> So really, really large would mean something like 100 petabytes
>
>
> My personal opinion is that a "large" database has more than ~10 million rows in more than ~10 tables.

It entirely depends on workload and hardware.

Joshua D. Drake


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