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nl on May 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Three things you should never put in your database

Splunk certainly does NOT use Postgres for it's backend(!)

It uses custom index files stored on a filesystem.

It can also connect to MySQL[1] and to HBase[2], but its own data is kept in its own index.

[1] http://blogs.splunk.com/2011/12/20/swimming-with-dolphins/

[2] http://blogs.splunk.com/2011/12/05/introducing-shep/

frankwiles on May 3, 2012 [–]

Makes sense, it's been a long time since I installed or had shell access to a Splunk box, I just remember it needing PG installed. Likely that's changed over the years.

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