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PostgreSQL on Big Sites?

Posted by Cliff on from the a-little-dog-on-big-sites dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I've been using PostgreSQL for years on small projects, and I have an opportunity to migrate my company's websites from Oracle to an open-source alternative. It would be good to be able to show the PHBs that PostgreSQL is a viable candidate, but I'm unable to find a list of high-traffic sites that use it. Does anyone know of any popular sites that run PostgreSQL?"

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  1. Several examples by IO+ERROR · · Score: 5, Informative

    See, for instance, PostgreSQL Case Studies and from the pgsql-advocacy mailing list comes some more: Finally, a list of *big* companies using PostgreSQL for *serious* projects. Why use PostgreSQL? Here's why for some examples.

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  2. The .org registry? by tzanger · · Score: 5, Informative

    Story

  3. recent interview with Josh Berkus by oreaq · · Score: 4, Informative

    MadPenguin has an interview with Josh Berkus, one of the core team members of PostgreSQL.

  4. How's .org and .info by snorklewacker · · Score: 4, Informative

    SPI, the authoritative .org registrar, and Afilias, the authoritative .info registrar both use PostgreSQL for their registration databases.

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  5. Companies that use PostgreSQL by bendsley · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their website shows that BASF uses PostgreSQL as their DB.

    www.basf.com

    They're an enormous company. I've always heard too that PostgreSQL is much better for larger sites. Cannot say for sure though as I have never used it.

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  6. Re:Need more info by yamla · · Score: 3, Informative

    FUD. MyISAM certainly can handle a database of larger than 2 gigs. It can even handle _tables_ larger than 2 gigs. "As you can see, MySQL remembers the create options exactly as specified. And it chose a representation capable of holding 91 GB of data." (p.38, High Performance MySQL: Optimization [sic], Backups, Replication & Load Balancing, by Jeremy D. Zawodny & Derek J. Balling, published by O'Reillly, April 2004.

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