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Re:RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience by rubber_duck on Friday February 10, 2017 @05:20AM (#13614416)
>Now of course buying two big servers with a heap of RAM and storage and putting Postgres on them with replication is pretty easy.

Is it really ? I really have no idea since I haven't played with PG in a couple of years but setting up clustering used to be a PITA with it so if it got better that sounds great. One of the impressive things I saw from RethinkDB is that you can set up sharing and replication with a few steps.

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Re:RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience by nl on Friday February 10, 2017 @06:14AM (#13614592)
Yes, it is much better than it used to be. See https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication,_Clustering,_an...

We did a hot-standby setup without much trouble at all.

(And also - thanks for making my point about why NoSQL happened for me)

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Re:RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience by rubber_duck on Friday February 10, 2017 @07:05AM (#13614794)
Oh I don't disagree at all btw., I've been doing MS SQL server and frontend professional recently so I haven't been in the loop about OSS DB, glad to hear things improved.
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