Postgres

also referred to as: postgres database

includes Postgres Eight

9 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2013 by Dwight Merriman · across every show →

Everything said about Postgres, oldest first

Dec 5, 2013 negative
Disclosure
Merriman: Modifying Postgres wouldn't deliver 10gen's desired architecture
“We looked at the traditional stuff and we thought, well, you know, could we take something, can we take Postgres and start changing, you know, changing code and make something we like? And we felt like we would never, Land where we wanted to get to if we did t…”
Dwight Merriman Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 48:47 Fireside chat with Dwight Merriman // Data Driven #8 // Sep 2012 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Dec 5, 2013 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Frenkiel: MemSQL on EC2 achieves 1ms latency vs 60ms for MySQL
“Whenever you go with MM-SQL on EC-II, for example, you will see, like, one millisecond response times, and a Postgres or a MySQL is on the order of 60.”
Eric (MemSQL) Dec 5, 2013 ▶ 18:26 Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #13 // Dec 2012
Sep 30, 2016 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Instacart's data stack relies on Postgres, AWS Redshift, Python, and R
“All of our production data is in Postgres, and we will read from the secondaries in AWS. We push all of the Postgres data into Redshift and do a lot of more intensive batch computations off of Redshift. The data science teams are using either Python or R we do…”
Jeremy Stanley Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 17:10 Making On-Demand Delivery Profitable // Jeremy Stanley, Instacart (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Aug 5, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Stewart: CockroachDB presents as a single Postgres database to developers
“From the point of view of the application developer, it looks like they're talking to a single Postgres database, but it just so happens to be elastically scalable.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 9:03 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Jun 21, 2021 positive
Opinion
Abe Gong calls Hasura 'just add water GraphQL' for Postgres databases.
“It's just add water GraphQL for Postgres. So if you've got a Postgres database, then you can point Hasura at it and extremely quickly spin up a GraphQL API for it. And subscriptions, queries, mutations, like you get all of those things. It's all code gen. So t…”
Abe Gong Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 23:49 Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Hitchcock: SurrealDB runs embedded, single-node, or as a distributed cluster
“So SurrealDB can run as an embedded database, like SQLite. It can run as a single node, like Postgres. Or it can run as a distributed cluster, and you can scale the storage layer, and you can scale the compute layer.”
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 17:50 Building The Database That Can Do It All | Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO of SurrealDB
Nov 21, 2024
Disclosure
Writer stores its knowledge graph as flat JSON in Postgres
“I mean, it is a flat JSON file. This is stored in a Postgres database. It's not even, A graph database.”
May Habib Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 13:12 Building the Easy Button for Generative AI | May Habib, CEO, Writer
Jan 23, 2025
Insight
Ben Rogojan: Early startups can handle baseline reporting using transactional databases
“Like I think what usually I see happens is like initially people just report off whatever their transactional system is. So if you're using Postgres or something and you're, you know, cause you're you've got some application layer. You can report off that for …”
Ben Rogojan Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 47:18 Understanding Data Engineering in 2025 | Ben Rogojan, Seattle Data Guy
May 8, 2025
Insight
Kaplan: General-purpose databases fail when scaling to high-volume telemetry
“So yes, in some cases there are, for many use cases, you can use a general purpose database. People have built stuff on Postgres. People have built time series on Mongo. Like those are highly useful. But if you're ingesting huge amounts of data, you want the q…”
Evan Kaplan May 8, 2025 ▶ 6:26 Rewriting Success: What InfluxDB 3.0 Teaches About Scaling—and Scrapping—Your Core Tech
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