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by NorwegianDude 819 days ago
This post was very wrong and misleading on multiple points.

I have seen a lot of people praising Postgres over e.g. MariaDB. But more often than not it seems to be people how lack knowledge.

Take this linked post, where the author points out "The untuned PostgreSQL performs poorly (x1050)" later followed by "This performance can’t be considered bad, especially compared to pure OLTP databases like MySQL and MariaDB (x3065, x19700)".

Frist of all, those are not pure OLTP databases. And if the author took a better look at the benchmark he would see that MariaDB using ColumnStore is at x98. That's 10x the performance of Postgres out of the box, and 200x faster than the author stated.

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How about: PostgreSQL tuned (x47). PostgreSQL + Hydra Extension (x42) PostgreSQL + ParadeDB Extension (x10.7)