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Re:The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL by teunispeters on Friday March 29, 2024 @03:12PM (#39867833)
Stability, reliability, consistency. If you do anything with Unicode you're also much better in PostgreSQL. Faster indexes, smaller base install (), and much more complete SQL language support.

() note: when PHP was taking off, MySQL had a smaller install base. This has long since changed - PostgreSQL hasn't grown much over the years, and MySQL has, at least since the last time I worked on both circa 2015-ish.

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Re:The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL by majewsky on Monday April 01, 2024 @10:20AM (#39894432)
Friendly nitpick, because I had a double-take when reading the second paragraph: Be careful to differentiate between "install base" and "base install". In both cases, you are referring to "installed size of the database in its base configuration". But "install base" commonly means "number of installations". So I was very confused when the second paragraph was implying (using the standard meaning for "install base") that the number of Postgres installations had not grown over the years.
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Re:The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL by teunispeters on Monday April 08, 2024 @10:03PM (#39975667)
Fair. I was referring to the space a minimal installation takes.
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