SQL provides users with a lot of facilities and mechanisms to limit, control, supervise, and if performed within a transaction, even undo overzealous DELETE sta

SQL provides users with a lot of facilities and mechanisms to limit, control, supervise, and if performed within a transaction, even undo overzealous DELETE statements. I discussed some of these at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15188619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15188619. AFAIK, with Postgres, there are no known circumstances where restarting your server will result in the purge of your database; that's really just icing on the cake, not the core of the argument. The core of the argument is that SQL provides not only a rational design paradigm for long-term storage and choices that reflect they take it seriously, but also an extremely strong feature set for data management and integrity. As I've said numerous times now, SQL isn't invincible. But it's inarguably more resilient than Kafka, and it provides the controls necessary to keep some sanity over data in the long run.