[asah]

agreed! PostgreSQL is the wrong tool for large data without indexes. It's also the wrong tool for ultra low latency access. And small, non-persistent data. And and and...

That said, over time PostgreSQL has wildly expanded the range for which it's suitable and if you can and want to bet on the future, it's often a better bet than niche systems.

It's also important to remember that PostgreSQL is decades ahead of other systems in data virtualization and providing backward-compatibility to applications after changes; pushing down computation near the data and avoiding moving billions of rows into middleware, including a world class query optimizer; concurrent data access; data safety and recovery; and data management and reorganization, including transactional DDL. Leaving this behind feels like returning to the stone age.

[osigurdson]

>> Wrong tool for ultra low latency access

I'm not sure what you mean by ultra low latency but unfortunate to have to rethink what a tool is good for because of RDS / EBS.