On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Christophe wrote:
> On Jul 20, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Dennis Gearon wrote:
>>
>> I once talked to a company that made a custome version of Postgres. It
>> split tables up on columns and also by rows, had some other custome
>> features. It was enormously faster from what I gathered.
>>
>> I could of sworn it began with the letter 'T', but maybe not. I don't see
>> anything like that on the commercial page of the posgres site.
>
> Truviso? http://truviso.com/
We don't do any column-oriented stuff at Truviso.
From the description Dennis gave, I'm guess he's thinking of the Petabyte
database at Yahoo:
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/2-petabyte-postgresql-24848
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