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But you don't need to horizontally scale if you use a beefy Postgres instance. Horizontal scaling is a problem created by using an inefficient DB in the first p
by yawaramin 3y ago
But you don't need to horizontally scale if you use a beefy Postgres instance. Horizontal scaling is a problem created by using an inefficient DB in the first place.
- winrid 3y agoI have DB clusters with masters with a terrabyte of ram. Going beyond that is a PITA with warming up cache, backups, and so on. There is a reason there's a huge industry for shared databases. Also, query for query, Mongo isn't going to be that much slower than PG, and faster for some usage patterns...
- winrid 3y ago*sharded