Thread: Is the biggest SQL database in the world now a Postgres fork?

Interesting article here:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/database/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207801436

Yahoo Claims Record With Petabyte Database

Yahoo claims it has the largest SQL database in a production
environment and that it will grow larger.
...
Yahoo started with the PostgreSQL engine and replaced the query
processing layer with code designed for its commodity hardware cluster.

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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