Also try Netezza, one data warehouse appliance originally based on Postgres. Although this is not the only such Postgres derivative.
Cheers, Brent Wood Brent Wood DBA/GIS consultant NIWA, Wellington New Zealand >>> Greg Smith <gsm...@gregsmith.com> 07/24/09 9:10 AM >>> 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 -- * Greg Smith gsm...@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general NIWA is the trading name of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
