You can do many things with PHP and MySQL but the real question: is it worth it? I would be interested comparing the TCO (including development time) with platf

You can do many things with PHP and MySQL but the real question: is it worth it? I would be interested comparing the TCO (including development time) with platforms like this. I think MySQL is lagging behind Postgres nowadays so I would much rather use that even for storing JSON, even though I do not think that storing JSON in an SQL engine is a particularly good idea, it might work. Our #1 complain against MySQL + JSON was the insert and update time that was significantly higher than the normal insert/update for obvious reasons. If the workload is not update heavy this approach might even work. :)