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Re:Postgres is eating the database world by riku_iki on Friday March 15, 2024 @04:30PM (#39720385)
You should look at CocroachDB: it tries to be PG compatible (not there yet), but true HA-first.
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Re:Postgres is eating the database world by derekperkins on Saturday March 16, 2024 @05:04PM (#39729452)
At often 10x the latency and significant query compatibility issues. That's a hard pill to swallow
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Re:Postgres is eating the database world by riku_iki on Saturday March 16, 2024 @05:06PM (#39729465)
latency increase is likely payment for distributed consistency regardless of specific DB: doing consensus between nodes is much slower than dumping block of data on local nvme.
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