And speaking of Rolls Royce's, there is a commercial product called Terradata that is extremely good at handling PB's
ofdata. Of course the bottom of the barrel entry price is $400,000US, not including the proprietary hardware & OS you
need.
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Naomi Walker [mailto:nwalker@eldocomp.com]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:43 PM
To: Bradley Kieser
Cc: Tony and Bryn Reina; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?
At 03:36 AM 4/2/2004, Bradley Kieser wrote:
>Hi Tony,
>Yep, for the time being you're pretty much limited to this for a table. As
>far as commercial DBs go, IMHO (without knowing about DB2) Oracle is the
>only player in town that will realistically deal with table sizes in the
>order of 100sGB or more. Ingres has limitations similar to PG although
>they will deny it, Informix I am a little bit rusty on now but certainly
>when I used it last it didn't scale up much past the low ordinal GBs per
>table and Sybase, IM v HO, is a joke anyway. Hope I don't offend anyone
>with that last statement!
For the record, I ran Informix with 100G size databases, with no problem.
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