[juliangoldsmith]

>Just because a relatively well-optimized PostgreSQL database on a regular workstation takes 5 minutes to run a query doesn't mean you can't get special hardware to run that query faster than you can type.

This is actually my biggest complaint with the article. He used cstore_fdw with Postgres, which doesn't allow much real indexing, and as far as I can tell (knowing only a little bit about it) he didn't really use any of the benefits of cstore_fdw.

I'd be interested to see how plain Postgres, possibly on a compressed filesystem, with properly-indexed tables stacks up.