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Well, it generally fits until it doesn't, and that's OK. If your scale is small enough, fiddling with specialized solutions is just premature optimization. Po
by phn 8y ago
Well, it generally fits until it doesn't, and that's OK.
If your scale is small enough, fiddling with specialized solutions is just premature optimization.
PostgreSQL will take you a long way before you need to look somewhere else.
- zzzcpan 8y agoHigh availability would be the most common case when you need to look somewhere else. And it's a serious distributed systems problem that requires pretty big architectural and cultural changes, you can't just optimize for it later.
- phn 8y agoYep, but you can "buy" HA from any DB provider (Amazon RDS, compose, etc.) until you're big enough to dedicate resources to solve that particular problem. My comment doesn't necessarily contradict the article. I only mean to point out that a general purpose "non-optimized" thing still fit a whole lot of companies out there, depending on their scale. EDIT: Although I concede that yeah some DB tech makes it easier to configure HA systems, if you can live with the downsides.