Re: Largest PG database known to man! - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: Largest PG database known to man!
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Msg-id 524B49EC.8070309@hogranch.com
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In response to Re: Largest PG database known to man!  (Mark Jones <mark.jones@enterprisedb.com>)
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On 10/1/2013 3:00 PM, Mark Jones wrote:
> >From the limited information, it is mostly relational.

phew.   thats going to be a monster.    400TB on 600GB 15000rpm SAS
drives in raid10 will require around 1400 drives.   at 25 disks per 2U
drive tray, thats 2 6' racks of nothing but disks, and to maintain a
reasonable fanout to minimize IO bottlenecks, would require on the order
of 25 SAS raid cards.   or, a really big SAN with some serious IOPS.
and naturally, you should have at least 2 of these for availability.

if we assume the tables average 1KB/record (which is a fairly large
record size even including indexing), you're looking at 400 billion
records.   if you can populate these at 5000 records/second, it would
take 2.5 years of 24/7 operation to populate that.

this sort of big data system is probably more suitable for something
like hadoop+mongo or whatever on a cloud of 1000 nodes, not a monolithic
SQL relational database.


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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
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