By himtuna on

You know I love drupal like you all do.
But I am hearing that drupal can't handle huge databases. Software engineers of some project team at our office are working on huge databases like govt data, geo spatial data, etc running into terabytes.. and they were talking drupal can't handle it! w t f!
Please let me know the answer/solution to shut those engineers' mouth.
There must be someway to handle efficiently such humongous amount of data.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

You would need to get them to be more specific that just "Drupal can't handle large databases" for someone to provide an answer that addresses their concerns

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himtuna commented

Can you please give me a starting point, where I can communicate the engineers on
how drupal can be used to build website to handle GeoSpatial data, government,population -consensus data?
Just heard them saying, we need to use non-sql based databases to handle such terabytes of data. Its total sci-fi for me!

I am aware about http://pressflow.org/

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

You might try this search in Google: Using GeoSpatial data in Drupal

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ttjordan81 commented

Huhmmm The United State Gov. website is running on Durpal... http://drupal.org/whitehouse-gov-launches-on-drupal-engages-community. Does this count!

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ayesh commented

1507304 nodes (excluding their revision history)
5796646 comments.
approx. 2000000 users.
true that some of these are not available now

You can also try better database back-ends like Oracle as well http://drupal.org/project/oracle

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audster commented

http://egressive.com/article/who-uses-drupal