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I'll repeat it again: you don't always want a relational database. Sometimes you need a document-oriented one. It matches quite a lot of use cases, e.g. when th
by tgv 1y ago
I'll repeat it again: you don't always want a relational database. Sometimes you need a document-oriented one. It matches quite a lot of use cases, e.g. when there aren't really interesting relations, or when the structures are very deep. That can be really annoying in SQL.
> when there's even mongo-api compatible Postgres solutions
With their own drawbacks.
- kdazzle 1y agoI'd probably use a jsonfield in postgres for data that i knew was going to be unstructured. meanwhile, other columns can join and have decent constraints and indexes.
- KaiserPro 1y ago> Sometimes you need a document-oriented one. Like a file system?
- tgv 11mo agoYeah, go ahead, query the file system.