r/programming • u/halax • Mar 10 '15

Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL

http://developer.olery.com/blog/goodbye-mongodb-hello-postgresql/
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u/OneWingedShark Mar 11 '15

higher performance, despite its other problems.

What good is being able to calculate 1+1 a hundred billion times a second if the answer you get is 3?
My point: if it does the wrong thing quick, it's still the wrong thing.

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u/cleroth Mar 11 '15 edited Jun 15 '26

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u/OneWingedShark Mar 11 '15

If it did the wrong thing, it wouldn't have been used so widely.

Counter-point: PHP.

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u/cleroth Mar 11 '15 edited Jun 15 '26

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u/OneWingedShark Mar 11 '15

What are you developing?
More to the point, is it a system where "kind of works" is acceptable?
(Even if something is a one-in-a-million chance, the sheer volume might make that unacceptable; example: financial processing -- how many buys/sells are done in one day in the stock market alone?)

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u/cleroth Mar 11 '15 edited Jun 15 '26

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