NoSQL: What is the “best” solution for storing high volumes of structured data?
1st November 2013
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On the right setup, PostgreSQL can handle petabytes. There are also commercial vendors such as Greenplum that offer data warehouse solutions built on a modified version of PostgreSQL.
You should also take a look at Hadoop and Hive. Hive lets you use a language based heavily on SQL to construct map reduce queries which can then run against a Hadoop cluster.
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