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Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Hervé Piedvache <herve@elma.fr>
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-01-20T15:07:37Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
* Herv? Piedvache (herve@elma.fr) wrote:
> I know they are not using PostgreSQL ... but how a company like Google do to 
> get an incredible database in size and so quick access ?

They segment their data across multiple machines and have an algorithm
which tells the application layer which machine to contact for what
data.

	Stephen