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Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows by halfcat on Thursday May 28, 2026 @09:46PM (#48317970)
DBOS is much less complexity compared to Temporal. That’s the benefit.

Main tradeoff is lower performance. Or at least, you’re going to be limited to what you can push through Postgres. If that’s sufficient for your needs DBOS is great.

Re:Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows by hmaxdml on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @12:23PM (#48372376)
Postgres does scale pretty well: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/benchmarking-workflow-execution-sc...

Tens of thousands of workflows per second