PostgreSQL - Prominent Users

Prominent Users

  • Yahoo! for web user behavioral analysis, storing two petabytes and claimed to be the largest data warehouse using a heavily modified version of PostgreSQL with an entirely different column-based storage engine and different query processing layer. While for performance, storage, and query purposes the database bears little resemblance to PostgreSQL, the front-end maintains compatibility so that Yahoo can use many off-the-shelf tools already written to interact with PostgreSQL.
  • In 2009, social networking website MySpace used Aster Data Systems's nCluster database for data warehousing, which was built on unmodified PostgreSQL.
  • State Farm uses PostgreSQL on their Aster Data Systems's nCluster Analytics server.
  • Geni.com uses PostgreSQL for their main genealogy database.
  • OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.
  • Afilias, domain registries for .org, .info and others.
  • Sony Online multiplayer online games.
  • BASF, shopping platform for their agribusiness portal.
  • Reddit social news website.
  • Skype VoIP application, central business databases.
  • Sun xVM, Sun's virtualization and datacenter automation suite.
  • MusicBrainz, open online music encyclopedia.
  • International Space Station for collecting telemetry data in orbit and replicating it to the ground.
  • MyYearbook social networking site.
  • Heroku, a cloud PaaS provider offering PostgreSQL-as-a-service.
  • Instagram, a popular mobile photo sharing service
  • HoldEmManager, a texas hold 'em and omaha tracking software
  • PokerTracker, a texas hold 'em and omaha tracking software

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