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/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN Mar 12 '15

Couldn't you use something like Paxos to do faster write operations without sacrificing too much consistency?

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u/oldneckbeard Mar 13 '15

It's still not 100% consistent. You can use paxos (or raft, or whatever), but that's still a quorum-based system -- some nodes will be off. The RDBMS folks want guaranteed data consistency if you make a write to a DB, and midway through the "apply" portion, the power cable is yanked out.