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Possible alternative headline: "Company weights in trade-offs of having two different database systems, decide to consolidate into a single one." :-) They don'
by emmanueloga_ 8y ago
Possible alternative headline: "Company weights in trade-offs of having two different database systems, decide to consolidate into a single one." :-)
They don't give too many reasons, but say that operationally it is gonna be easier for them to work with a single database than with two (no-brainer?)
- dralley 8y agoAs someone on the team, that didn't factor into the decision too much, although it's definitely a nice perk. Switching to Postgres made a lot of sense even when looking at Pulp as a standalone project rather than as a part of Satellite.
- taude 8y agoExcept, I'd argue that most large distributed systems these days are using much more than two types of data stores, especially when you start including name/value keystores (and in memory caching variants), big data pipelines, transactional data, "unstructured" data storage (like Mongo), time series, etc. I work in FinTech and you'll see several backing our apps, and this isn't uncommon.
- zaphirplane 8y agoThe licensing change surely has to have played a factor