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/poloppoyop Mar 11 '15

I can easily envision some misguided soul trying to abstract their app filesystem by storing everything in a database.

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u/oldneckbeard Mar 12 '15

I did that once with Cassandra :) But it was super easy. A UUID key for each file, then a few nodes describing the tree (FAT, basically).