Take a look at http://www.postgresql.org/about/casestudies/ for some
examples of use. Looking through the pgsql-advocacy mailing list might
provide some more cases as well. Of the top of my head, I believe
there's at least one national banking system running on PostgreSQL, as
well as all of the .org TLD.
BTW, how do you define 'huge data sets' and 'huge query rates'? Some
people have pretty skewed ideas about what 'huge' is. :) I maintain
http://stats.distributed.net, which has a ~12G database on the backend;
many would think that's huge; I think it's at best small-medium.
As for support, as others have mentioned there are commercial companies
(such as mine) that will sell support. Plus, the support from the
community is generally top-notch as well.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:25:49PM -0400, Logan Bowers wrote:
> Hello,
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> My company is looking at two very large DB vendors to bear most of data
> burden of our company; however I'd like to propose PostgresQL to handle
> some of the tasks, specifically a large number read-only search DBs.
> Postgres already has the win in terms of features and it's now down to
> risk.
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> Many of the other folks at the company feel an open-source DB is more
> risky because it is less well tested compared to commercial
> counterparts. I'm looking for examples of large installations of
> Postgres with huge data sets, high traffic volumes, high update rates,
> etc, particularly large, recognizable names. I know you guys get this
> question a lot, but can anyone share experiences with using Postgres in
> large settings with huge query rates, replication, etc? Any stories you
> guys can share (in public or private) would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance!
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> Logan Bowers
>
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