Listen "Companion databases"
Episode Synopsis
Nikolay and Michael discuss companion databases — when and why you might want to add another database management system to your stack (or not), and some specifics for analytics, timeseries, search, and vectors. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Heap were using Postgres + Citus for analytics as of 2022 https://www.heap.io/blog/juggling-state-machines-incident-response-and-data-soup-a-glimpse-into-heaps-engineering-culture Heap recently moved their core analytics to SingleStore (we only spotted this after recording 🤦♂️) https://www.heap.io/blog/heaps-next-generation-data-platform Posthog moved their analytics from Postgres to Clickhouse https://posthog.com/blog/clickhouse-vs-postgres Timescale https://www.timescale.com/ Citus https://www.citusdata.com/ Hydra https://www.hydra.so/ Our episode on real-time analytics https://postgres.fm/episodes/real-time-analytics Our episode on queues https://postgres.fm/episodes/queues-in-postgres Our episode on logical replication https://postgres.fm/episodes/logical-replication Full Text Search in PostgreSQL (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/textsearch.html ZomboDB https://www.zombodb.com/ ParadeDB https://www.paradedb.com/ PeerDB https://www.peerdb.io/ RUM indexes https://github.com/postgrespro/rum Debezium https://debezium.io/ pgmq https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq Tembo https://tembo.io/ pgvector vs Pinecone (Supabase blog post) https://supabase.com/blog/pgvector-vs-pinecone Jepsen analyses https://jepsen.io/analyses ~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is brought to you by:Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiMichael Christofides, founder of pgMustardWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork
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