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by zzzcpan 2878 days ago
> Very few handled anything that couldn't run off a beefy postgres installation.

Beefy postgres would get you to 99.9% availability at best, with pretty bad tail latency and would cost quite a bit to operate. As it turns out, very few can actually live with that. And even infamous MongoDB can do better at this than PostgreSQL. Ignorance simply makes your business less competitive.

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> Beefy postgres would get you to 99.9% availability at best

This is just false. Shrug.