This demo presents the Sloan Digital Sky Survey , one of the largest surveys of the night sky. It runs on the latest release of MonetDB and uses the DR7 release of Skyserver.
The server platform is a Dual four-core processor machine with 64GB RAM and 5.5TB diskspace.
The Skyserver database occupies about 2.6TB on disk. Due to the limited hardware, the queries are handles using a batching scheme and a time-out of 30 minutes is imposed. The interface is kept purposely spartan. The results become available for onine inspection, or can be exported as an CSV file for post processing.