Re:It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
by sgarland on Saturday February 07, 2026 @12:20PM
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> The major thing I advocate for is don't pick a NOSQL database to avoid relational dbs, only to try and do a bunch of relational work in NOSQL that would have been trivial in an RBDMS.
It has always felt to me like devs will gravitate towards doing the opposite of what makes sense for their DB. If they have a Document DB, they'll try to use it relationally. If they have a relational database, they'll shove everything into a JSON column. Then in both cases, they complain that it's slow.
It has always felt to me like devs will gravitate towards doing the opposite of what makes sense for their DB. If they have a Document DB, they'll try to use it relationally. If they have a relational database, they'll shove everything into a JSON column. Then in both cases, they complain that it's slow.