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And I wish they never get old. Every few years, new paradigms come to the forefront and debates like these certainly help many developers choose one way or the

And I wish they never get old. Every few years, new paradigms come to the forefront and debates like these certainly help many developers choose one way or the other.

StreamBright 6y ago
In what paradigm are you referring to exactly with Postgres and Mongodb? Relational turning 51 years old in 2021 while key-value stores category (which MongoDB falls into) is at least 40. So in a sense this article is about which technology should we use, a 40 or a 50 years old one?
- asya999 6y ago
  MongoDB is not a key-value store. It's a document database.
  - StreamBright 6y ago
    "Document-oriented databases are inherently a subclass of the key-value store, another NoSQL database concept." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document-oriented_database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document-oriented_database
- kumarvvr 6y ago
  The paradigm of which type of database is best suited for large scale data, distributed in different locations.