Re: Are we the first OSS database with parallel query?

Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08/29/2016 08:39 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 08:41:15PM -0400, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> I suspect not, but I can't think of another example right now.
>
> There are a fair number that beat us to that punch (GPDB, HadoopDB,
> etc.)
>
> We're the first with a liberal license, though. :)
>

No, we're not. This is fairly tricky question, because there's 
definitely a bunch of databases that are not used widely in production 
environments, but are technically open source and implement some sort of 
parallel query functionality.

For example there's MonetDB (which is using basically a Mozilla 
license), which supports parallel queries since ~2012 or so.

There's also C-Store (Vertica is a commercial fork), and H-Store (VoltDB 
is a commercial fork) - AFAIK both support query parallelism. Although 
they are experimental / research project (and most companies use the 
commercial forks in production), they use BSD license so technically 
they are open source. Also, Stonebraker cooperated on both those 
projects so neglecting them would be particularly annoying.


regards

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