At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced database yet

Re:At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced... by threeseed on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @02:22PM (#18611525)

Seriously though this is true especially from their users.

It is never just PostgreSQL is a great database. It’s always that MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB and the hundreds of NoSQL databases are all unusable junk with no unique benefits.

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Re:At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced... by PaulHoule on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @06:36PM (#18613898)

Oracle is OK if you can afford it and afford a nice battery backed storage array that (truthfully) fsyncs quickly.

MongoDB is crap.

I think the people who use Arangodb don't talk about it because they see it as a competitive advantage.

Right now I am working on an abstraction layer for document databases and using couchdb side by side with Arangodb. I guess I'll have to write a N1QL parser to go with my AQL parser.

The database I have the most fun with is SQLite. It is single-user, which means you can't log in with the SQL monitor when your program is running, but if you can accept that it's just great.

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Re:At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced... by weberc2 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:06PM (#18611928)

I've never heard this, but I don't know any hardcore database folks either. Mostly it's just "I need a SQL database for my application and Postgres seems to be a good default" (note that I mostly roll with a Linux/Unix crowd, otherwise it'd probably be the same thing except s/Postgres/SQLServer).

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