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Postgres is such a cool project, I have so much respect for its maintainers and community! For me its the second most impactful OSS project in the business tech
by drdrek 1y ago
Postgres is such a cool project, I have so much respect for its maintainers and community! For me its the second most impactful OSS project in the business tech world behind Linux itself.
A real public good to be cherished and praised.
- freilanzer 1y agoI recently started a ML project using text data and the choice was between MySQL and Postgres. Having looked at the respective features and pros and cons, the choice was immediately obvious. Also, with pgvector and https://postgresml.com https://postgresml.com available, the choice for Postgres was even easier.
- cpursley 1y agoPostgres is Enough: https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f06dbb https://gist.github.com/cpursley/c8fb81fe8a7e5df038158bdfe0f...
- powerbook5300CS 1y agoWhy not MongoDB?
- IgorPartola 1y agoI guess they didn’t need anything web scale.
- ricw 1y agoThe question should be the other way around: why mongodb? It’s not ACID compliant so has major down sides…
- okeuro49 1y agoAccording to mongodb it is acid compliant. https://www.mongodb.com/resources/products/capabilities/acid-compliance https://www.mongodb.com/resources/products/capabilities/acid...
- belter 1y agoBecause it's web scale...
- belter 1y agoYou can get no better recommendation, that a phrase I once heard at a presentation by Richard Hipp primary author of SQLite. As he was explaining how he analyzed new features and design decisions he says some of his guidance is: "What would Postgres do?"