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A) Postgres easily scales to billions of rows without breaking a sweat. After that shard. It’s definitely negotiable.

• threeseed 2y ago
  So does a text file. Statements like yours are meaningless when you aren't specific about the operations, schema, access patterns etc. If you have a single server, relational use case then PostgreSQL is great. But like all technology it's not great at everything.
  • scosman 2y ago
    The use a text file. In all seriousness, calling Postgres’ scalability “not-negotiable for most use cases” is wild.
    • threeseed 2y ago
      What's wild is you misrepresenting what I said which was: "built-in, supported, proven scalability and high availability" PostgreSQL does not have any of this. It's only good for a single server instance which isn't really enough in a cloud world where instances are largely ephemeral.
      • tristan957 2y ago
        Do you mean ephemeral clients or Postgres servers?
  • g8oz 2y ago
    If multiple nodes are needed, then why MongoDB and not a Postgres compatible distributed product like CockroachDB or YugabyteDB?