On Tuesday 14 July 2009 14:16:33 you wrote:
> This is great,
> thank you
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> I have to say, if this is a free-of-charge
> add on to postgres that works and utilizes the hardware on each server
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> -- why would anybody need to use mapreduce/hadoop/etc?
> for database-like selects ?
It's new - the grid project just moved out of beta i believe. However I know
of at least one commercial company using it in production with no issues
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> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:45 -0600, "Kevin Kempter"
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> <kevink@consistentstate.com> wrote:
> > > But do you know if supports viewes that combines tables
> > > from different servers (this way
> > > I can prefix a table on each server with server_id and then
> > > just combine them in the view in a single Image table)
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> > no need for this, the system presents the clients (via the controller) a
> > single table - even though its actually partitioned across nodes
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> > It's quite similar to the Informix XPS product if that helps
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> Vlad P
> author of C++ ORM http://github.com/vladp/CppOrm/tree/master
