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> will require figuring out how to get Postgres to do it in a reasonable amount of time, whereas a data warehouse is designed to do these kinds of aggregations
by riku_iki 3y ago
> will require figuring out how to get Postgres to do it in a reasonable amount of time, whereas a data warehouse is designed to do these kinds of aggregations very efficiently.
"reasonable amount of time" is speculative term, it could be good enough for some usecases.
Also, you can do indexes in Postgres, but can't in say BigQuery, meaning it is more likely I can build low latency analytics in Postgres but will have issues in BigQuery.