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Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on by cbdumas on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:50PM (#25888174)
Exactly, and from a features standpoint Postgres can do everything Dynamo can do and so much more. I think a lot of software devs don't really know SQL or how RDBMS work so they don't know what they are giving up.
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Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on by whymauri on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:21PM (#25888390)
This is similar to how I feel about graph databases. Twitter (FlockDB) and Facebook (TAO) built scalable graph abstractions over SQL without a hitch.

Why would I want to use a graph DB directly then?

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Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on by GordonS on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:36AM (#25892852)
Postgres even has JSONB support, so if you really want to store whole documents NOSQL-style, you can - and you can still use all the usual RDBMS goodness alongside it!

Postgres really is a wonderful database.

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