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
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…”
Dec 5, 2013 bullish
Sep 30, 2016 neutral
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…”
Aug 5, 2020 positive
Jun 21, 2021 positive
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…”
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Nov 21, 2024
Jan 23, 2025
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 …”
May 8, 2025
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…”