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I've found databases fascinating and tried various DB's as they come out. I always find some issue or caveat or problem and I decide in the end that Postgres g

I've found databases fascinating and tried various DB's as they come out. I always find some issue or caveat or problem and I decide in the end that Postgres gets most of the way there anyway and I return to Postgres. Whenever I get tempted by a shiny new database I remind myself "don't bet against Postgres".

akulkarni 6y ago
+1000 Postgres. This is exactly why we chose to build TimescaleDB on top of PostgreSQL. Reliability, JSON, mature tooling, tons of connectors.
gen220 6y ago
This is why I’m inherently skeptical of any database technology that isn't built on top of Postgres :) PG has mostly skipped the whole time series database trend until Timescale showed up. Still waiting waiting for the graph-db and git-db extensions! I think there’s been so much progress at the lowest level, that new SQL-databases might be kind of foolhardy to not build on top of PG at this point, especially if their main claim to fame is essentially a data type and some fancy indexing. I hope PG ends up more like Linux, and less like C++ or Java. :)