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		DrFalkyn 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases fo... Indices are one the first things you learn in any decent DB course, so you don’t need a PhD But if BigTable just solves the problem it seems the way to go PostGres is popular for a reason, it’s ACID unlike BigTable You may run into these problems later on, you may not

furstenheim 7 months ago | [–]

ACID is good and it has an implementation cost (vacuum for example). When doing analytics you do not care for ACID

bhouston 7 months ago | [–]

I love Postgres and use it a lot but not for analytics.

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