Re: [PERFORM] [pgsql-jobs] Looking for database hosting

2007-08-19 Thread Andrew Hammond
riginal Message- > From: Andrew Hammond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ] > Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 03:49 PM Eastern Standard Time > To: Niklas Saers > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject:Re: [PERFORM] [pg

Re: [PERFORM] [pgsql-jobs] Looking for database hosting

2007-08-19 Thread Leon Mergen
Hello, Just to note something interesting on database scalability: i'm not sure whether your database is used for processing or just data lookup, but if it's used for data lookup, look into memcached -- it's a really scalable caching system which can reduce your database load a lot. I know a lot

Re: [PERFORM] [pgsql-jobs] Looking for database hosting

2007-08-19 Thread Luke Lonergan
Sunday, August 19, 2007 03:49 PM Eastern Standard Time To: Niklas Saers Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] [pgsql-jobs] Looking for database hosting Nik, you may be underestimating just how much performance can be obtained from a sing

Re: [PERFORM] [pgsql-jobs] Looking for database hosting

2007-08-19 Thread Andrew Hammond
Nik, you may be underestimating just how much performance can be obtained from a single database server. For example, an IBM p595 server connected to an array of ds8300 storage devices could reasonably be expected to provide several orders of magnitude more performance when compared to commodity ha