Re: [PERFORM] TB-sized databases

2007-11-26 Thread Stephen Cook
I think either would work; both PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server have success stories out there running VLDBs. It really depends on what you know and what you have. If you have a lot of experience with Postgres running on Linux, and not much with SQL Server on Windows, of course the former would

Re: [PERFORM] FUSION-IO io cards

2011-04-29 Thread Stephen Cook
On 4/29/2011 10:24 AM, Mark Steben wrote: Hi, Had a recent conversation with a tech from this company called FUSION-IO. They sell io cards designed to replace conventional disks. The cards can be up to 3 TB in size and apparently are installed in closer proximity to the CPU than the disks are.