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Re:Why Use Postgres by joevandyk on Monday April 30, 2012 @06:44PM (#3911963)
Instagram did just fine with postgresql with 27 million users. Many logical shards spread over a smaller amount of physical ones.

http://www.databasesoup.com/2012/04/sharding-postgres-with-i...

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Re:Why Use Postgres by gouranga on Monday April 30, 2012 @06:55PM (#3912010)
Instagram isn't very complicated to be honest so I doubt that's a good scalability example.
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Re:Why Use Postgres by joevandyk on Monday April 30, 2012 @07:06PM (#3912049)
Skype's plan to support 1 billion users w/ postgres a few years ago? http://highscalability.com/skype-plans-postgresql-scale-1-bi... and http://www.slideshare.net/adorepump/small-overview-of-skype-...

Billions of records, 10,000 transactions per second. This was a couple of years ago.

Dunno if Skype is complicated enough for you.

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Re:Why Use Postgres by erichocean on Monday April 30, 2012 @07:22PM (#3912093)
I get the sense he'll ratchet up what "complicated" means until he wins the argument. :)
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Re:Why Use Postgres by gouranga on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @03:40AM (#3913393)
No just there is a difference between large and complicated.
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