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by icebraining 2485 days ago
Well, my current "heavy data processing" is generating a 3D render from some metadata stored in the database. Postgres is amazing, but I don't think it can do that yet :)

My experience over my career has been this: there's CRUD, lots of IO, and a bunch of data processing that just needs specialized software (image, video, weather simulation, etc). I try to offload what I can to the database - and yeah, I know about window functions - but other than for the occasional report, it just doesn't move the needle.

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Fair enough. It looks like we use databases in rather different ways.