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Re:Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analy... by DrFalkyn on Saturday March 08, 2025 @07:54AM (#43299865)
Indices are one the first things you learn in any decent DB course, so you don’t need a PhD

But if BigTable just solves the problem it seems the way to go

PostGres is popular for a reason, it’s ACID unlike BigTable

You may run into these problems later on, you may not

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Re:Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analy... by bhouston on Saturday March 08, 2025 @09:39AM (#43300599)
I love Postgres and use it a lot but not for analytics.
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Re:Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analy... by furstenheim on Saturday March 08, 2025 @10:02AM (#43300777)
ACID is good and it has an implementation cost (vacuum for example). When doing analytics you do not care for ACID
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