Re: [GENERAL] commercial adaptation of postgres

2009-07-23 Thread Brent Wood
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 07/24/09 9:10 AM >>> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Christophe wrote: > O

Re: [GENERAL] commercial adaptation of postgres

2009-07-23 Thread Greg Smith
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 cou

Re: [GENERAL] commercial adaptation of postgres

2009-07-21 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:56 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. Faster at some things :-). column ori

Re: [GENERAL] commercial adaptation of postgres

2009-07-21 Thread Dennis Gearon
Thanks Bricklen Dennis Gearon --- On Tue, 7/21/09, bricklen wrote: > From: bricklen > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] commercial adaptation of postgres > To: "Dennis Gearon" > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 7:33 AM > Greenplum uses a modi

Re: [GENERAL] commercial adaptation of postgres

2009-07-21 Thread bricklen
Greenplum uses a modified version of PostgreSQL for their MPP product. http://www.greenplum.com/ On Mon, 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

Re: [GENERAL] commercial adaptation of postgres

2009-07-20 Thread Ries van Twisk
On Jul 20, 2009, at 8:56 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

Re: [GENERAL] commercial adaptation of postgres

2009-07-20 Thread Christophe
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

[GENERAL] commercial adaptation of postgres

2009-07-20 Thread Dennis Gearon
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 th