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Re:Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, oper... by Blazara on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:34AM (#49219145)
I don't understand the use case. I've never seen why Postgres is better than anything else if I'm honest. Even if it is much, much faster, database transactions aren't what slow things down if written well in web applications.
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Re:Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, oper... by mindwok on Saturday August 08, 2026 @07:45AM (#49220885)
It’s not just speed, it’s also the rich feature set. Trigram search, JSONB, transactions, GIN indexes, full text search - not many databases combine them all into a Swiss Army knife like Postgres does.
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