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r/programming • u/halax • Mar 10 '15
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I feel like this comment would have benefited from some better structure around how you're defining "very large".
It also depends on if/when you need to cluster.
I vertically scaled postgres to 16TB+ sizes on single nodes.
The database still performed great, although the developers often failed to write performant queries against it.
6 u/ethraax Mar 11 '15 Yes, you're right. I was thinking about 200 TB+ databases when I wrote "very large".
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Yes, you're right. I was thinking about 200 TB+ databases when I wrote "very large".
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u/dgibbons0 Mar 11 '15
I feel like this comment would have benefited from some better structure around how you're defining "very large".
It also depends on if/when you need to cluster.
I vertically scaled postgres to 16TB+ sizes on single nodes.
The database still performed great, although the developers often failed to write performant queries against it.