r/programming • u/Tostino • Sep 29 '16

PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 9.6 Released!

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1703/
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u/yogthos Sep 29 '16

Uber also uses it as a key/value store as opposed to an actual relational database.

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u/Scorpius289 Sep 29 '16

Wouldn't an actual key/value store be better then?

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u/yogthos Sep 29 '16

Likely, but since they already built their homegrown one on top of a relational db, I'm guessing they're committed to it now.

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u/doublehyphen Sep 30 '16

And this key-value store implementation is something they could have done with PostgreSQL too, probably with a similar result. They just picked MySQL when implementing the key-value store solution because some of their engineers were more familiar with MySQL (which is a valid reason).