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How to install and configure Postgres-XC in windows?

Can anybody suggest me any resources of the complete installation procedure of postgres-XC in windows. I've installed postgresql-9.2 in my windows and can use it. Now I need to know the installation ...
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how to find vertica community edition and how to export / copy data

I have the hardest time downloading anything other than enterprise edition from vertica.com. It is supposed to have a community edition on https://my.vertica.com/community/ but all the links just show ...
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Consistency in ACID and CAP theorem, are they the same?

From my understanding, the consistency in ACID is ensuring the data integrity. However, the consistency in CAP means the data can appear quickly in distributed system. Does that mean: they are not ...
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Database choices for big data

I have many text files, their total size is about 300GB ~ 400GB. They are all in this format key1 value_a key1 value_b key1 value_c key2 value_d key3 value_e .... each line is composed by a key and ...
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Does the pgpool-II extension allow for parallel execution of any query?

I read about pgpool-II here and it states that: Using the parallel query function, data can be divided among the multiple servers, so that a query can be executed on all the servers concurrently ...
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PostgreSQL synchronized commit performance

I'm setting up a pair of PostgreSQL servers. Because cash is short I can only afford one high class server and some crapy backup box. If the expensive high end box should catch fire, operations can ...
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Distribute MySQL in different cities?

We have our main MySQL server in city A. We have the bulk of our customer service staff in city B. The staff are complaining that the connection is too slow to the server. The options are: Have them ...
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DB2 Express-C 10.1 database move to DB2 Work group Server/Enterprise Edition

I have not done such migration before and I want to know if I am going to face such issues when moving my database (tables,views,table-spaces,functions,procedures,etc.) to other DB2 distribution. If ...
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Examples of real-time distributed database system. [closed]

I am about to start my project on Distributed Database Systems and i need a project scenario. Can anyone give me some examples, scenarios of a real time Distributed Database System. Any sample ...
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Upgrading Remote Distributor in SQL Server Replication

I'm upgrading my remote distributor from 2005 to 2008r2, it is performing transactional replication only. this is a prerequisite to completing an upgrade of the Publisher to 2008r2. Script ...
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Model for Distributed Database [closed]

I want to design a model for a distributed database solution. Are there appropriate tools and approaches? How to include stereotypes for (horizontal) fragments?
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What is the reasoning behind the CAP theorem?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262b-2004/PODC-keynote.pdf I think it is not very straightforward why only two of Consistency Availability Partition ...
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Why can't we perform joins in a distributed database like Bigtable?

From this answer to What database does Google use?, BigTable is not a relational database. It does not support joins nor does it support rich SQL-like queries. Is this obvious? I do not ...