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Re:Postgres is eating the database world by sgarland on Friday March 15, 2024 @08:36AM (#39714824)
> Postgres… Kafka… Cassandra

These are all wildly different products that should not be considered for the same purposes.

Re:Postgres is eating the database world by lmm on Sunday March 17, 2024 @05:23PM (#39738189)
If your premise is that Postgres is eating the datastore world, then you're talking about using it as a replacement for Kafka and Cassandra.

Frankly if you zoom out far enough they're all systems suitable for use as your primary online datastore that you build your application on (each with their own caveats of course). There are places where they compete.

Re:Postgres is eating the database world by user_of_the_wek on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:18AM (#39741474)
But that's the gist of the article here, right? That Postgres is taking over all db-like use cases. It doesn't claim that it can replace Kafka but https://www.amazingcto.com/postgres-for-everything/ certainly does. Of course it's not a full replacement, but it might be good enough.