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From damien clochard
Subject Re: Is the biggest SQL database in the world now a Postgres fork?
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Msg-id 200805222146.57975.damien@dalibo.info
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In response to Is the biggest SQL database in the world now a Postgres fork?  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
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More info here :

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9087918&source=rss_news6

« [..] tweaked the open-source PostgreSQL to run as a column-based database
rather than a conventional row-based one. »

« The database requires fewer than 1,000 PC servers hosted at several data
centers, [...] one-tenth to one-twentieth fewer than the number that would be
needed if the database were a conventional one such as Oracle, IBM's DB2 or
NCR's Teradata. »

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