Re: [GENERAL] Postgres or Greenplum

2011-06-08 Thread Leonardo Francalanci
On 07/06/2011 23.52, Tom Lane wrote: Very fast on a very narrow set of use cases ... Can you explain a little (if possible)? Thank you -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres or Greenplum

2011-06-08 Thread Gabriele Bartolini
Hi Radoslaw, On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:30:33 +0200, Radosław Smogura rsmog...@softperience.eu wrote: But, I think GreenPlum is share nothing, isn't it? Yes, indeed. In very simple words Greenplum is a parallel processing database solution that implements the shared-nothing architecture. One

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres or Greenplum

2011-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Windsor simon.wind...@cornfield.me.uk writes: I have been using Postgres for many years and have recently discover Greenplum, which appears to be a heavily modify Postgres based, multi node DB that is VERY fast. Very fast on a very narrow set of use cases ...

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres or Greenplum

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Simon Windsor simon.wind...@cornfield.me.uk wrote: I have been using Postgres for many years and have recently discover Greenplum, which appears to be a heavily modify Postgres based, multi node DB that is VERY fast. All the tests that I have seen suggest

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres or Greenplum

2011-06-07 Thread Radosław Smogura
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:04:04 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Simon Windsor simon.wind...@cornfield.me.uk wrote: I have been using Postgres for many years and have recently discover Greenplum, which appears to be a heavily modify Postgres based, multi node DB that is