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Love this comment.

I've promoted the idea in the past that if you're going to use something other than PostgreSQL (or MySQL if that's the DB that's already embedded) you need to PROVE that what you need to build can't work with that standard relational database before adopting some new datastore.

It's surprisingly hard to prove this. The most common exception is anything involving processing logs that generate millions of new lines a day, in which case some kind of big data thing might be a better fit.



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