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This is ridiculous, Postgres is hands down a superior database at any price point.
by darksaints 3y ago
This is ridiculous, Postgres is hands down a superior database at any price point.
- baq 3y agoSorry, no. Not even close. Postgres is very good at what it can do and very cheap, but it just doesn’t do very much compared to SQL server or others. I’ve ran both mssql and Postgres in prod in the same project in perhaps not big but still nontrivial scale (low single digit terabytes) and SQL server made some things possible which Postgres simply didn’t have an answer for - column stores being the notable single killer feature if I had to name only one.
- darksaints 3y agoI'm currently running SQL Server and Postgres in the same project, and I would love to dump SQL Server. Its geospatial "capabilities" are so laughably bad, they should just stop advertising that they exist at all, and the unpredictable locking behavior alone should disqualify it from being used in any modern software project. And sure, it has column stores, which postgres has in extensions, but even if I needed column stores, SQL Server would still be last on my list, because there are so many better options out there.