PGCon2016 - 20180510

PGCon 2016
The PostgreSQL Conference

Speakers
Vladimir Borodin
Schedule
Day Talks - Day 1 - 2016-05-19
Room DMS 1110
Start time 10:00
Duration 00:45
Info
ID 923
Event type Lecture
Track DBA
Language used for presentation English

Yandex.Mail success story

Experience of a big migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL

This talk gives a historical overview of several years during which we were migrating a 24/7 web-service with 300 TB of metadata and 250k TPS from Oracle databases to PostgreSQL.

Yandex is one of the largest internet companies in Europe, operating Russia’s most popular search engine and its most visited website. Yandex.Mail is one of the biggest mail services in Russia with audience of 50+ million users weekly and 200+ million users total. All mail metadata (without message bodies) were stored in Oracle databases with a total size of approximately 300 terabytes (without accounting raids and standbys, only data) and total load of 250.000 transactions per second. It took us several years to migrate all these data and load from Oracle to PostgreSQL. In this talk we will speak about our motivation, architecture decisions, migration process and of course about difficulties faced.