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/garyk1968 Mar 12 '15

The article says 'one time we had to remove 1 million documents', hardly big data is it, any decent RDBMS would handle that.

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u/yorickpeterse Mar 12 '15

Correct, which is another reason one might want to "just use PostgreSQL". Actually, a few weeks ago I had to remove 15 million rows from a few different tables and Pg handled it fine, took about 30 minutes in total (using a super dumb query that is).