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> Postgres does not even come close to a full replacement for Elastic Size matters! For most of the application out there elastic (or kafka or any other speci
by vb-8448 2mo ago
> Postgres does not even come close to a full replacement for Elastic
Size matters!
For most of the application out there elastic (or kafka or any other specialized tool) is just too much(and too costly). They can do fine with postgres or mysql. Actually, I'd argue that in a lot of cases even postgres is too much, probably sqlite is enough.
- devin 2mo agoWhat do you know about full text search? Faceted search? Custom tokenization? It is wild to see people talk about Postgres fulltext like it’s all you could need, even for small apps.
- vb-8448 1mo agoI didn't say that is "all you could need", I said is "just fine for a lot of use cases out there", which implies that there are use cases where you could need specialized tools ...