SFPUG August: Postgres-XL

Topic: Postgres-XL: Supersized PostgreSQL

Speaker: Mason Sharp

Food Sponsor: Translattice Inc.

Host/Drink Sponsor: CloudFlare Inc.

Location: CloudFlare offices, 665 3rd Street

Postgres-XL was recently released to further extend the open source Postgres ecosystem, allowing users to scale-out both transactional workloads and obtain fast response times for BI/OLAP applications.

This session will discuss the capabilities of Postgres-XL and how, by bringing massively parallel processing (MPP) to the community, PostgreSQL becomes a strong candidate for Big Data analytics.

Mason Sharp will also a demo how to install a small local cluster on your laptop for testing.

LIVE VIDEO FEED: Join the Google Event here (https://plus.google.com/events/c8mfqjclti942chd8rl9nvr3jgc) for an invitation.

WARNING: there is a baseball game tonight. Allow extra travel time. Parking will be difficult; take public transportation.