[ale] Switching a production news site to postgresql

Leam Hall leamhall at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 19:47:26 EST 2018


NoSQL is good for high "read" to "write" transactions. Since the data is 
all close by you eliminate heavy joins and multiple table looks ups.

For example, a blog comment section might be good for a NoSQL db. Mongo 
has several good courses on it, for free:

	https://university.mongodb.com/

On 12/20/18 7:39 PM, Jonathan Meek via Ale wrote:
> This was a cool article. I have found myself looking more at regular SQL 
> DB solutions than NoSQL DB solutions.
> 
> Does anyone on list use a NoSQL DB in production and if so, what was the 
> reason for using it?
> 
> I am just curious because I am not understanding the business case for 
> using a NoSQL solution.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jonathan


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