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Discussion on: PostgreSQL vs MongoDB

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Robin

MongoDB as write / eventstore
CouchDB as distributed mobile database
PostgreSQL for general purpose application
Elasticsearch for full text search

When using NoSQL make sure you don't need any relation to the data e.g: post, article, log, comment, notification.
Otherwise, switch to SQL.

MongoDB joins are slow because they're not indexed (CMIIW tho). I used MongoDB for production and avoid joins at all cost.

Flexibility of query in SQL can sometimes be a bad things where engineers design bad relation and write slow complicated query.
Used postgres for a year and I like it tho, especially the JSON data type. The schema system is a bit weird compared to MS SQL.