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About the choice of the database. Why did you decide to go with PSQL instead of a NoSQL database as Firebase does? Doesn't that affect your scalability? Otherw
by imedadel 6y ago
About the choice of the database. Why did you decide to go with PSQL instead of a NoSQL database as Firebase does? Doesn't that affect your scalability?
Otherwise, great project!
- kiwicopple 6y agoActually we chose Postgres specifically because it is scalable. I had to switch from Firebase in my previous company because we hit some scaling limits. Postgres handles the scale no problem - it's crazy the performance improvement we saw (and it's ACID) The trickiest part was the realtime functionality - https://github.com/supabase/realtime https://github.com/supabase/realtime