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Re:Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL a... by rad_gruchalski on Sunday September 05, 2021 @04:54PM (#28427676)
That’s a huge oversimplification. Mnesia is distributed but that’s about it. There’s so much more to sql than selecting data. Transactions, user defined functions, stored procedures, custom types…
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Re:Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL a... by alberth on Sunday September 05, 2021 @05:22PM (#28427933)
None of what you detail though is included in what the GP describes as a modern database.

I’m not trying to nitpick but what GP describes aligns to what Mnesia provides.

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Re:Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL a... by rad_gruchalski on Sunday September 05, 2021 @05:33PM (#28428018)
The GP mentioned CockroachDB though. There’s a lot of implicit functionality behind that name. Even just behind mentioning Postgres.

The distributed part of modern sql is fairly recent.

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