Of course, the first thing which occurred to me with pg_shard was to create a distributed "NoSQL" database using 9.4's JSONB ...

Few of my readers will be familiar with Wanelo, the social shopping site, because you just aren't in its target market.  But Wanelo.com ...

The cool folks at Cloudflare, next-generation CDN for web applications, have created a Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) for Kyoto Tycoon.  This le...

The comments on my introductory post on this topic mentioned a lot of the major features which users would like to see in PostgreSQL.  Amon...

Just a quick note to draw people to an excellent blog post about NoSQL databases and "Partition Tolerance" .  Emun Sirer points ou...

On Tuesday last week we had a terrific SFPUG meeting at which Mike Kreiger of Instagram explained how they grew and eventually sharded t...

Photo courtesy K Lars Lohn .  Used with permission.  Yesterday my colleague Robert Hodges made a post disputing the CAP theorem . While...

We do a lot of high-availablity PostgreSQL deployments for clients.  As of 9.1, streaming replication (SR) is excellent for this, and can sc...