Database

Database management for "big science" applications - The Database Column

http://www.databasecolumn.com/2007/11/databases-for-big-science.html nice article and comments

Oracle FAQ: Oracle Parallel Query

http://www.orafaq.com/faqopq.htm some faq on oracle’s parallel query processing

Pl/Pgsql - Greg's Postgres stuff

http://people.planetpostgresql.org/greg/index.php?/categories/19-PlPgsql some interesting notes on PL/PGSQL programing

PGCon2007: Developing New Zealand's Electoral Roll on PostgreSQL

http://www.pgcon.org/2007/schedule/events/53.en.html http://www.pgcon.org/2007/schedule/attachments/25-Slides (pdf slides)

PostgreSQL replication strategies (slides in pdf)

http://www.pgcon.org/2007/schedule/attachments/19-20070523Cecchet_PGCon2007.pdf This is pfrom PGCon2007 description

PostgreSQL Partitioning (pdf slides)

http://images.omniti.net/omniti.com/talks/partitions-public.pdf How to partition tables in postgresql

Amazon's Dynamo - All Things Distributed

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html Amazon’s “Dynamo” - distributed hash table. Interesting bibliography at the end of the article

PostgreSQL: Why PostgreSQL Instead of MySQL: Comparing Reliability and Speed in 2007

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.83 some generic info about eternal “MySQL vs PostgreSQL” topic from postgres site

Big Bad PostgreSQL - Esoteric Curio

http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archive%20s/66-Big-Bad-PostgreSQL.html http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/misc/BBPostgres.pdf

MySQL Performance Blog » FaceBook Search, Search for social networks

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/08/12/facebook-search-search-for-social-networks/ facebook uses mysql, I didn’t know