News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why some NoSQL DBs only let you perform transactions on a single data item. Parent comment

Re:Why some NoSQL DBs only let you perform transactions on a... by Rezo on Friday October 30, 2015 @08:59AM (#10477492)
It scales, to a point. In my opinion however, any type of sharding/clustering is still a total mess in PostgreSQL. Most projects will however probably never need to.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why some NoSQL DBs only let you perform transactions on a... by Roboprog on Friday October 30, 2015 @12:07PM (#10478637)
How DARE you, sir, imply that we are not the next "Amazon"!

Kidding aside, I suspect with a little discipline, one could design a PG DB that could be ported to Oracle (Exadata???) should the need, and budget ($$$$$), for that sort of scaling arise. Cheap and safe now, Expensive and safe later (if needed)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why some NoSQL DBs only let you perform transactions on a... by Roboprog on Friday October 30, 2015 @12:10PM (#10478653)
Also, I seem to recall that PG scales up on multiprocessor hardware fairly well (vs say MySQL), so one can explore exhausting that limit first before more drastic measures are taken.
[ Parent | on HN ]