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by vark 5807 days ago
From http://glinden.blogspot.com/2008/05/yahoo-builds-two-petabyt... :

Yahoo builds two petabyte PostgreSQL database James Hamilton writes about Yahoo's "over 2 petabyte repository of user click stream and context data with an update rate for 24 billion events per day".

It apparently is built on top of a modified version of PostgreSQL and runs on about 1k machines. In his post, James speculates on the details of the internals. Very interesting.