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by threeseed 1228 days ago
> Bless them, but PostgreNoSQL would be so much better for all the use cases I have than MongoBD

And for some of us MongoDB is a better option than PostgreSQL.

Many of us simply can't rely on scalability and high availability being something that isn't part of the core product.

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The built in horizontal scaling of Mongo is nice, but I would still put PG's reliability per-instance higher than Mongo's.

The reason being that Mongo is written in C++ with lots of RAII and will simply die on a memory allocation failure. Postgres won't. It'll keep running in many low memory scenarios and the operation will error out.

In what way is scalability and high availability not part of Postgres' core?
Master-master replication probably, think Galera.