Comment by xyst

5 hours ago

"juSt use PoStGreS" is spoken like a true C-level with no experience on the ground with postgres itself or its spin offs.

yes pg is awesome and it’s my go to for relational databases. But the reason why mongo or influx db exists is because they excel in those areas.

I would use pg for timeseries for small use cases, testing. But scaling pg for production time series workloads is not worth it. You end up fighting the technology to get it to work just because some lame person wanted to simplify ops