[ex_ex_nihilo]

Postgres is not an alternative to Mongo, though. Provide a noSQL alternative if you want an alternative. RDBs and non-RDBs seek to address different sets of problems, and sometimes you do not want or need a relational database.

[harunurhan]

Postgres has JSON support. In fact Amazon's documentdb which is alternative to Mongo, is built on top of Postgres AFAIK.

[thawkins]

Its built ontop of aurora, which is amazons own datastore.

[zkomp]

But postgres actually is that with json and jsonb. The postgres developers are also very focused on providing a better alternative to mongo. Afaik similarly configured postgres also challenge or beat mongodb in performance.

[ex_ex_nihilo]

Cool thanks, I did not know about that.

[matthewmacleod]

In what situations do you feel MongoDB is a better solution than Postgres? The latter is both relational and document-oriented as required.

[tracker1]

Setting up a simple cluster without relying on addons, or having to worry about which server in the cluster your writes are going to (bisected application configurations)