2013/12/10 Stephan Fabel <sfabel@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi all, > > and sorry if I'm asking a question that has been answered before; has the > PostgreSQL community ever considered different key/value backends (sort of like > MySQL with its many different options)? > > We'd be very interested in seeing the effects of integrating LMDB [*] in terms > of performance gains. Has this avenue been explored before? There was talk of pluggable storage at this year's PGCon (PGUncon?): https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/2013UnconfPluggableStorage but even if the idea gains traction, it's not going to arrive any time soon. As Kevin mentions, FDWs might provide a good alternative. An example with key/value stores I've been citing recently is this one: http://blog.cloudflare.com/kyoto_tycoon_with_postgresql Regards Ian Barwick -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general