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I'm not sure I agree with this - there have been many postgres features over the past ~10 years that got me excited, some of the highlights that immediately spr

• Nextgrid 5y ago
  > postgres Postgres has the advantage that it's still open-source, can be ran locally and self-hosted (and has a healthy ecosystem of managed providers) and won't go away anytime soon. None of these are true for all these new DB startups.
• geophile 5y ago
  Doing well on the Jepsen tests is a very good sign. But it isn't anywhere near enough. Other things to consider: - The product has bugs not addressed by Jepsen. - Performance is inadequate. - The optimizer is immature, and you find yourself struggling to understand and work around its limitations. - Replication is missing or doesn't work well enough. - There is absolutely no substitute for N years of real-world experience, no matter how rigorous the company's testing. - Impossibility of finding people already familiar with the product, because they are all employed by the vendor. - Even aside from product issues, is the company profitable? If not, how long is it going to be in existence?
  • redis_mlc 5y ago