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by cpursley 912 days ago
I’ll ask again, what’s a good use case over Postgres jsonb.
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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.

Definitely a better solution than the brick wall he hit. Complicated beastie. I can see the appeal if you just love, eat, and breath SQL.

But a query language within a query language feels bolted onto something alien to do something pretty basic. Pass. If I'm teaching this to new engineers, pass also.