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PostgreSQL has terrible sharding and clustering support.

So no I would not be using it for any big data projects.

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I was going by mcphilip's description which was <300GB. For running data mining on so small datasets you do not need any sharding.

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Such general statements can only be inaccurate.

We're having about 3TB of PostgreSQL data on 4 servers. It works very well for us.