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Re:GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL by timewarrior on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:12AM (#16984194)
If I want to use it as a write only table where I would like to get virtual indexes for values inside the JSONb column.

Would you recommend using Postgres for this usecase?

Re:GitHub's online schema migration for MySQL by guiriduro on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:13AM (#16984898)
This discussion might be useful re: indexing JSONb columns and a comparison of performance (a bit out of date, things have probably improved even further);

http://bitnine.net/blog-postgresql/postgresql-internals-json...

The GIN index is an inverted index, if you're expecting to query against several keys; alternatively if you have a large keyspace and no need to query outside a small number of properties, you could create individual hash or btree indexes for each one.

Postgres is good for this usecase, but as always, YMMV, consider alternatives/optimizations if your scale or write-volume dictate otherwise (e.g. sharding, Citusdb etc.)