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I have deployed Postgres and MongoDB at petabyte scale. I am happy to answer questions from others who are intellectually curious about differences between the two that would matter to users who have to spend serious amounts of money on their databases.

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vanilla, single-node postgres ?

No, it's frankly not possible to deploy Postgres at scale without a third party (or hand-rolled) HA/scaling solution. I worked on an application that hand-rolled one after considering several products.

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