PgConf.Russia 2017

I want to present a new custom access method, which extends the current GIN capabilities using additional information stored in posting tree/list. For example, positional information as an additional information allows new AM returns results in relevance order, which could considerably improve execution time of full text queries.

PostGIS enables spatial processing in Postgres. Usually PostGIS is used for planar euclidean calculations, but real world adds time, ambiguity and uncertainty. We'll have a look on making a thousand of cars move smoothly in real time on OpenStreetMap base map.

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Database systems are increasing in size and so is the need to process huge amounts of data in real time. As commercial database vendors are bragging about their capabilities we decided to push PostgreSQL to the next level and exceed 1 billion rows per second to show what we can do with Open Source. To those who need even more: 1 billion rows is by far not the limit - a lot more is possible. Watch and see how we did it.

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