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by RandalSchwartz 3235 days ago
Or, get the best of both worlds. ToroDB puts a mongo wire protocol in front of Postgres, which outperforms mongo significantly on the same hardware. Plus, you can get read-only views on the Pg side to join with traditional relational data.
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> Or, get the best of both worlds. ToroDB puts a mongo wire protocol in front of Postgres

Postgres alone is already the best of both worlds. With ToroDB, I am restricted to the MongoDB way of dealing with my data; with Postgres, I can mix SQL and NoSQL however I like, even in a single, simple SELECT query.