RE: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-27 Thread Andrew Armstrong
er into MySQL's partitioning. Cheers - Andrew -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 July 2007 6:44 PM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL On 7/26/07, Andrew Armstrong wrote: > * Table 1: 8

Re: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-27 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On 7/26/07, Andrew Armstrong wrote: > * Table 1: 80,000,000 rows - 9.5 GB > * Table 2: 1,000,000,000 rows - 8.9 GB > This is a generic star schema design for data warehousing. > I have read that it is better if perhaps partitioning is implemented, where > new dat

RE: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Armstrong
007 10:23 AM To: Andrew Armstrong Cc: 'Wallace Reis'; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL Wallace is right, Data Warehousing shouldn't delete any data. MySQL isn't as robust as say, Oracle, for partitioning so you need to fudge thing

Re: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Brent Baisley
Wallace is right, Data Warehousing shouldn't delete any data. MySQL isn't as robust as say, Oracle, for partitioning so you need to fudge things a little. I think partitioning is the way to go and you should use MERGE tables to handle your partitions. Really what you are lookin

RE: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Armstrong
I'm more concerned as to why inserts begin to slow down so much due to the large table size. -Original Message- From: Wallace Reis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 July 2007 1:02 AM To: Andrew Armstrong Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs

Re: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Wallace Reis
On 7/26/07, Andrew Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you have a suggestion to how this should be implemented? Data is aggregated over time and summary rows are created. I think that you didnt design correctly your DW. It should have just one very larger table (the fact table). Data should

RE: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Do you have a suggestion to how this should be implemented? Data is aggregated over time and summary rows are created. -Original Message- From: Wallace Reis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 8:43 PM To: Andrew Armstrong Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Data

Re: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Wallace Reis
On 7/26/07, Andrew Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Information is deleted from this DW as well, after every five minutes. The data being recorded is time sensitive. As data ages, it may be deleted. Groups of samples are aggregated into a summary/aggregation sample prior to being deleted. I

RE: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Armstrong
: Re: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 18:37 +1000, Andrew Armstrong wrote: > Hello, > > > > I am seeking information on best practices with regards to Data Warehousing > and MySQL. I am considering moving to PostgreSQL. > * Table 1: 80,

Re: Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 18:37 +1000, Andrew Armstrong wrote: > Hello, > > > > I am seeking information on best practices with regards to Data Warehousing > and MySQL. I am considering moving to PostgreSQL. > * Table 1: 80,000,000 rows - 9.5 GB > * Table 2: 1,0

Data Warehousing and MySQL vs PostgreSQL

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Hello, I am seeking information on best practices with regards to Data Warehousing and MySQL. I am considering moving to PostgreSQL. I am currently using MySQL as the database of choice. I am now running into performance issues with regards to large tables. At the moment, I have the

Re: data warehousing

2002-05-29 Thread Taylor Lewick
I dont think the types of tables will really help you, because as I understand it mySQL doesnt yet have stored procs, views, and sub-selects, regardless of table type... I may be wrong though... Taylor Lewick Unix System Administrator Fortis Benefits 816 881 6073 "Help Wanted. Seeking Telepat

data warehousing

2002-05-29 Thread Don Vu
Hi guys, Does anyone have any thoughts on using MySQL for a datawarehousing application? Problems I've run in to are with mining data from a data warehouse because of the lack of sub-selects, stored procs, and views. Should I be looking more at InnoDB or MyISAM table types? any thoughts are a

Re: Real-time data warehousing

2002-05-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 17), Brad Teale said: > We are warehousing real-time data. The data is received at up to T1 speeds, > and is broken up and stored into the database in approximately 25 different > tables. Currently MySQL is doing terrific, we are using MyISAM tables and > are storing 24

RE: Real-time data warehousing

2002-05-17 Thread Brad Teale
: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:27 PM To: Brad Teale Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Real-time data warehousing How are your apps written? We use OTL libaries from http://members.fortunecity.com/skuchin/home.htm which are compiled into our C/C++ code. Moving our apps from oracle to mysql onl

Re: Real-time data warehousing

2002-05-17 Thread walt
On Friday 17 May 2002 12:58 pm, Brad Teale wrote: > I forgot to mention, we have Oracle in-house, and the machine the MySQL > database will reside on is a 2 proc Sun box with 1.5G of RAM. The Oracle > databases reside on a 16 proc Sun box with 10G of RAM. How are your apps written? We use OTL

RE: Real-time data warehousing

2002-05-17 Thread Brad Teale
, how much of a performance hit would we take with MySQL if we connected through MyODBC? Thanks again, Brad -Original Message- From: walt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:47 AM To: Brad Teale Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Real-time data warehousing

Re: Real-time data warehousing

2002-05-17 Thread walt
Brad Teale wrote: > We are warehousing real-time data. The data is received at up to T1 speeds, > and is broken up and stored into the database in approximately 25 different > tables. Currently MySQL is doing terrific, we are using MyISAM tables and > are storing 24 hours worth of data but we d

Re: Real-time data warehousing

2002-05-17 Thread Gelu Gogancea
] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Brad Teale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:49 PM Subject: Real-time data warehousing > We are warehousing real-time data. The data is received at up to T1 speeds, >

Real-time data warehousing

2002-05-17 Thread Brad Teale
We are warehousing real-time data. The data is received at up to T1 speeds, and is broken up and stored into the database in approximately 25 different tables. Currently MySQL is doing terrific, we are using MyISAM tables and are storing 24 hours worth of data but we don't have any users and we

Data Warehousing and MySQL

2001-05-16 Thread Corrado Topi
Hi all, Two easy pieces :-): 1)Anybody has experience in using MySQL for data warehousing? 2)Anybody has tried to implement OLAP engine for data warehousing using MySQL??? I thank You in advance! Have a nice day ... -- Dr. Corrado Topi Manger of the Special Projects Unit Elbi International