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Postgres is not an alternative to Mongo, though. Provide a noSQL alternative if you want an alternative. RDBs and non-RDBs seek to address different sets of pro
by ex_ex_nihilo 8y ago
Postgres is not an alternative to Mongo, though. Provide a noSQL alternative if you want an alternative. RDBs and non-RDBs seek to address different sets of problems, and sometimes you do not want or need a relational database.
- harunurhan 8y agoPostgres has JSON support. In fact Amazon's documentdb which is alternative to Mongo, is built on top of Postgres AFAIK.
- thawkins 8y agoIts built ontop of aurora, which is amazons own datastore.
- zkomp 8y agoBut postgres actually is that with json and jsonb. The postgres developers are also very focused on providing a better alternative to mongo. Afaik similarly configured postgres also challenge or beat mongodb in performance.
- ex_ex_nihilo 8y agoCool thanks, I did not know about that.
- matthewmacleod 8y agoIn what situations do you feel MongoDB is a better solution than Postgres? The latter is both relational and document-oriented as required.
- tracker1 8y agoSetting up a simple cluster without relying on addons, or having to worry about which server in the cluster your writes are going to (bisected application configurations)