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> We love PostgreSQL which Supabase utilizes. We plan to do more research on scalability, since column-based * SQL databases can’t grow as big as their NoSQL co
by philliphaydon 4y ago
> We love PostgreSQL which Supabase utilizes. We plan to do more research on scalability, since column-based * SQL databases can’t grow as big as their NoSQL counterparts. Nonetheless, Supabase came at the right time.
> * Edit: poor choice of words
Where do people get this idea that sql cannot scale or grow? Ever since this fad of “NoSQL” we have ended up with these false claims everywhere.
- parasubvert 4y agoThat’s what’s called successful marketing, at least with a segment of developers that never looked hard at databases, and bought into the NoSQL claims. The decades long market debates over network, hierarchical, object vs SQL databases are also a distant memory for most. There’s good technical reasons SQL remains dominant, but again, a segment of folks aren’t incentivized to learn why.