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by pleoxy 912 days ago
Nothing wrong with picking mongo if it's a good fit for your use case.
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And what's a good use case over Postgres jsonb?
Postgress is single master which is a huge limitation.
How so?
How do you scale a single master out of the box?
What's nice about Postgres is there's a ton of Postgres compatible products that do scale for the 10% who actually need it. And it's still all just Postgres / SQL.
Again it's not out of the box and your so called "tons" vary in quality and features.
When one doesn't want SQL for one.

Nosql is a fun target to beat up on of late. But there are good, even infamous, reasons to avoid SQL. Particular if you want to accomplish flexible record queries from untrusted clients.

I’ll ask again, what’s a good use case over Postgres jsonb.
All you do is poop all over the story about postgres. I'm convinced that no use cases will convince you of anything. I'm not really looking to involve myself in a database holy war.
Is jsonb in Postgres not flexible enough? I dump external json in there all the time (like large API responses). The jsonb operators work well. And there's an escape hatch that lets you easily convert json to a table. And importantly, you get indexes with Postgres.
I apologize for being short with you in my previous response. I need to be better about assuming good faith.

Your response seems to betray a certain ignorance of mongo. Don't you realize that mongo has indexes?

For handling documents, this blog post covers the topic in some depth.

https://jimb-cc.medium.com/postgres-jsonb-meets-mongodb-part...

Might I suggest you actually use mongo on a project before engaging further on the topic. It clearly has had a lot more thought put into it in the context of json documents.

If postgres works great for your use cases, great, go be happy with the tool.

Exactly