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Michael Stonebraker invented Postgres and has long said 'one size fits all' is an idea whose time has come and gone. https://cs.brown.edu/~ugur/fits_all.pdf htt
by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
Michael Stonebraker invented Postgres and has long said 'one size fits all' is an idea whose time has come and gone.
https://cs.brown.edu/~ugur/fits_all.pdf https://cs.brown.edu/~ugur/fits_all.pdf
the relational ACID model is overkill for mostly-read data warehouse and verticality helps; streaming is different; graph dbs are different.
Postgres may not be 'all you need', it will take you pretty far though, maybe it's 'all you need most of the time'. 60%+ of the time it works every time.