Thread: big databases & hospitals
Hi! I need to write a few pages about Postgresql, to convince some suits. They have a few millions of records, on a few site, but they want to know the practical limits of Postgresql. So i need some information about the biggest (in storage space, in record number, in field number, and maybe table number) postgresql databases. Additionally, because this company develops hospital information systems, if someone knows about a medical institute, which uses Postgresql, and happy, please send me infomation. I only now subscribed to the advocacy list, and only started to browse the archives. Thanks. -- Tomka Gergely Tudom, anyu. Sapka, sál, doksi.
This is the homepage of a Hospital/Healthservice Information System, I'm not so sure but I think it can use various DBMS, including PostgreSQL: http://www.care2x.org/ Regards, Javier On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:13:02 +0100 (CET), Tomka Gergely wrote > Hi! > > I need to write a few pages about Postgresql, to convince some > suits. They have a few millions of records, on a few site, but they > want to know the practical limits of Postgresql. So i need some > information about the biggest (in storage space, in record number, > in field number, and maybe table number) postgresql databases. > > Additionally, because this company develops hospital information > systems, if someone knows about a medical institute, which uses > Postgresql, and happy, please send me infomation. I only now > subscribed to the advocacy list, and only started to browse the archives. > > Thanks. > > -- > Tomka Gergely > Tudom, anyu. Sapka, sál, doksi. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match -- nediam.com.mx
2006-01-14 ragyogó napján Chris Mair ezt üzente: > > > Additionally, because this company develops hospital information systems, > > if someone knows about a medical institute, which uses Postgresql, and > > happy, please send me infomation. I only now subscribed to the advocacy > > list, and only started to browse the archives. > > Hi, > > have you seen this case study: > http://www.postgresql.org/about/casestudies/shannonmedical Yes, and i found this page: http://advocacy.daemonnews.org/viewtopic.php?t=82 which is better than this small something on the postgres page. Quotes like this: "The FreeBSD/PostgreSQL combination is extremely flexible and robust." the sweetest music for us. But two example better than one, and i can't find technical details, the size of the data, by example. I can only guess the architecture (single node, single cpu, no HA or expensive RAID, because AFAIK FreeBSD in 2000 was not to good in this areas). Thanks, of course! -- Tomka Gergely Tudom, anyu. Sapka, sál, doksi.
> Additionally, because this company develops hospital information systems, > if someone knows about a medical institute, which uses Postgresql, and > happy, please send me infomation. I only now subscribed to the advocacy > list, and only started to browse the archives. Hi, have you seen this case study: http://www.postgresql.org/about/casestudies/shannonmedical Bye, Chris.
On 1/14/06, Tomka Gergely <tomka@zeus.gau.hu> wrote: > Hi! > > I need to write a few pages about Postgresql, to convince some suits. They > have a few millions of records, on a few site, but they want to know the > practical limits of Postgresql. So i need some information about the > biggest (in storage space, in record number, in field number, and maybe > table number) postgresql databases. > here you can see some limits of postgresql: http://www.postgresql.org/about/ -- regards, Jaime Casanova (DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:13:02PM +0100, Tomka Gergely wrote: > Hi! > > I need to write a few pages about Postgresql, to convince some suits. They > have a few millions of records, on a few site, but they want to know the > practical limits of Postgresql. So i need some information about the > biggest (in storage space, in record number, in field number, and maybe > table number) postgresql databases. > > Additionally, because this company develops hospital information systems, > if someone knows about a medical institute, which uses Postgresql, and > happy, please send me infomation. I only now subscribed to the advocacy > list, and only started to browse the archives. We have a customer that has around 5000 tables and hasn't had any serious issues from that number of tables (other than \d sometimes not working in psql, but IIRC Tom put a fix in for that already). As for raw size, 100G databases are pretty common. If you search through the list archives you can probably find some examples. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461