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* you are solving problems you don't have * you can have replicas with postgres also

even if you do end up getting the load you are hoping for (though i doubt you will have 1.5 million qps), reads are easily scalable with replicas, and writes are also possible with sharding or tools from CitusData



This is precisely the very painful lesson I learned - don't solve problems you don't have...

(Blog author)


He/she was also not having problems with RethinkDB, so why "solve" that by using Postgres?

Disclaimer: I'm also happy running RethinkDB in a cluster of 3. It has been rock solid stable for over 2 years.


I don't have of the top of my head other examples but i know PG is used by yandex.ru which is like the google of russia, and they migrated from oracle and they are very happy, so if it works for them i think it will work for you :)


Don't they use clickhouse instead?


they probably use a lot of tools for a lot of reasons but they do use postgres

https://www.pgcon.org/2016/schedule/attachments/426_2016.05....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SS4R1sFH3c




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