[GENERAL] general features

2007-06-03 Thread Badawy, Mohamed
Hi all 

am very new to postgres  actually am just collecting information about
but I having a problem with time so I was asking if someone could help
me with quick anserws about these features in postgres.

 

1-max amount of available storage data. 
2-Clustering support. 
3-price. 
4-speed.

 

 

 

Best Regards,,,

 

Mohamed Badawy

 


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Re: [GENERAL] general features

2007-06-03 Thread A. Kretschmer
am  Sun, dem 03.06.2007, um 10:34:47 +0200 mailte Badawy, Mohamed folgendes:
 Hi all
 
 am very new to postgres  actually am just collecting information about but I
 having a problem with time so I was asking if someone could help me with quick
 anserws about these features in postgres.
 
  
 
 1-max amount of available storage data.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html#item4.4


 2-Clustering support.

What do you mean exactly?


 3-price.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html#item1.3


 4-speed.

very high ;-)


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Re: [GENERAL] general features

2007-06-03 Thread PFC



1-max amount of available storage data.


How many hard disks can you buy ?


2-Clustering support.


Please be more precise.


3-price.


Free.


4-speed.


Proportional to the expertise of the DBA.
	Postgres can be extremely fast if used correctly, it can totally suck if  
the database is badly designed.
	But this is completely normal. It is as fast as the other major players,  
and all of them need expertise to work well.
	If you're a newbie, you'll make newbie errors, fortunately this list has  
many friendly  knowledgeable people who can help you, and the docs are  
excellent.



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Re: [GENERAL] general features

2007-06-03 Thread Badawy, Mohamed
 

Thanks for all of the replies,,,

 

What I mean by clustering is to put the database on many machines.

 

 

Best Regards,,,

 

Mohamed Badawy

 


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Re: [GENERAL] general features

2007-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson

On 06/03/07 09:08, Badawy, Mohamed wrote:
[snip]


Thanks for all of the replies,,,

What I mean by clustering is to put the database on many machines.


Single database on many machines?

Do you mean federation/horizontal scaling, or DR replication or 
something different.  PostgreSQL has master-slave replication using 
Slony-1.


If you mean simultaneous access to the same disks from multiple 
machines without corrupting the data, you'll have to go to a 
proprietary system.  10K (15K if you've got the scratch) RPM RAID10, 
8GB RAM and a couple of dual-core Opterons is a *really* fast 
database box.  You might not need more than that.


But if you *do* need the continuous uptime that shared-disk 
clustering and rolling in-place upgrades gives you, then Rdb/VMS 
can't be beat.  It'll *cost*, though.


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[GENERAL] Features

2000-04-10 Thread Jeff MacDonald

Hi Folks,

I know this one has been asked alot, but since i can't
search, i'm gonna re-ask.

1: Reliablility - is there any documents out there 
regarding stability and reliablilty of postgresql

2: replication - still in exotic list ? there is huge market
demand, and lots of people willing to throw cash
into it.

3: don't think it's been asked, but does postgresql have any 
XML support, or has anyone looked into it ?


Jeff MacDonald
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