Christina Noren(cfrlnat_private)@Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:12:33PM -0800: > > The Addamark Log Management System turns the filesystem itself into a > database. It stores log data as compressed files segregated in a b-tree > index on time, with an SQL front end for querying. Because we parse the logs > for each time segment into columns with more data redundancy than full rows > we actually use less disk than gzipping flat files. Our engine runs on > clusters of Linux PC's, with full parallelism in both load & query > processing & distribution of data storage. So you get even more storage > efficiency and write performance than flat files with the queryability of a > relational database. Me too! :) I'm preparing to import my central loghost's log archive into a Addamark cluster we have at work. Our data warehouse people are quite happy with Addamark, and talked me into using it. It seems to be a good fit for what I need of a log repository. I mention this so that people don't just write off what Christina said as just vendor hype. -- Nate Campi Wired UNIX Operations TerraLycos DNS Operations Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else; usually it is reading his own handwriting (G.Norman Collie) _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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