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Comment by zer00eyz | Hacker News Reader

Go back further:

At a point in time the database was a bleeding edge technology.

Ingres (Postgres)... (the ofspring of Stonebreaker), Oracle, ... Db2? MSSQL? (Heavily used but not common)... So many failed DB's along the way, people keep trying to make "new ones" and they seem to fade off.

When was the last time you heard someone starting a new project with Mongo, or Hadoop? Postgres and Maria are the go to for a reason.

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There's a team at my company that chose Mongo for a new data transform project about a year ago. They didn't create a schema for their output (haven't to this day) and I'm convinced they chose it purely because they could just not handle any edge cases and hope nobody would notice until it was already deployed, which is what happened. For example maybe one in a thousand of the records are just error messages - like they were calling an API and got rate limited or a 404 or whatever and just took that response and shoved it into the collection with everything else.

I... Well dev/null is an option...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

It's all just history repeating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLT6_TQmq8

still, I would have out that mess in jsonb in Postgres :D

Postgres is awesome and part of its charm is the extensibility it offers enabling the adoption of innovative features introduced by competing DB's.

Postgres adopted a lot of mongos features when it released the JSON data type and support for path expressions

Mongo is still very big, including for greenfield.

It's tiny compared to 10 years ago when it was all the rage and DBs were dead...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

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