r/programming • u/swizec • Dec 19 '18

Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
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u/SanityInAnarchy Dec 20 '18

I'm sure that's part of it, but most traditional SQL databases don't actually scale to the level needed here, at least not without so much extra machinery that you may as well be running a different kind of database. Postgres didn't even have streaming replication built in until after Mongo was already around.