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Alternatives to Citus

TimescaleDB, CockroachDB, Apache Aurora, Cassandra, and Vitess are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Citus.
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What is Citus and what are its top alternatives?

It's an extension to Postgres that distributes data and queries in a cluster of multiple machines. Its query engine parallelizes incoming SQL queries across these servers to enable human real-time (less than a second) responses on large datasets.
Citus is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.
Citus is an open source tool with 9.5K GitHub stars and 625 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Citus's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Citus

  • TimescaleDB
    TimescaleDB

    TimescaleDB: An open-source database built for analyzing time-series data with the power and convenience of SQL — on premise, at the edge, or in the cloud. ...

  • CockroachDB
    CockroachDB

    CockroachDB is distributed SQL database that can be deployed in serverless, dedicated, or on-prem. Elastic scale, multi-active availability for resilience, and low latency performance. ...

  • Apache Aurora
    Apache Aurora

    Apache Aurora is a service scheduler that runs on top of Mesos, enabling you to run long-running services that take advantage of Mesos' scalability, fault-tolerance, and resource isolation. ...

  • Cassandra
    Cassandra

    Partitioning means that Cassandra can distribute your data across multiple machines in an application-transparent matter. Cassandra will automatically repartition as machines are added and removed from the cluster. Row store means that like relational databases, Cassandra organizes data by rows and columns. The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a close relative of SQL. ...

  • Vitess
    Vitess

    It is a database solution for deploying, scaling and managing large clusters of MySQL instances. It’s architected to run as effectively in a public or private cloud architecture as it does on dedicated hardware. It combines and extends many important MySQL features with the scalability of a NoSQL database. ...

  • Clickhouse
    Clickhouse

    It allows analysis of data that is updated in real time. It offers instant results in most cases: the data is processed faster than it takes to create a query. ...

  • MySQL
    MySQL

    The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software. ...

  • PostgreSQL
    PostgreSQL

    PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. ...

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TimescaleDB

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Scalable and reliable time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Built on PostgreSQL.
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PROS OF TIMESCALEDB
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    Open source
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    Easy Query Language
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    Time-series data analysis
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    Established postgresql API and support
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    Reliable
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    Paid support for automatic Retention Policy
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    Chunk-based compression
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    Postgres integration
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    High-performance
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    Fast and scalable
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    Case studies
CONS OF TIMESCALEDB
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    Licensing issues when running on managed databases

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John Kodumal

As we've evolved or added additional infrastructure to our stack, we've biased towards managed services. Most new backing stores are Amazon RDS instances now. We do use self-managed PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB for time-series data—this is made HA with the use of Patroni and Consul.

We also use managed Amazon ElastiCache instances instead of spinning up Amazon EC2 instances to run Redis workloads, as well as shifting to Amazon Kinesis instead of Kafka.

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Hi, I need advice on which Database tool to use in the following scenario:

I work with Cesium, and I need to save and load CZML snapshot and update objects for a recording program that saves files containing several entities (along with the time of the snapshot or update). I need to be able to easily load the files according to the corresponding timeline point (for example, if the update was recorded at 13:15, I should be able to easily load the update file when I click on the 13:15 point on the timeline). I should also be able to make geo-queries relatively easily.

I am currently thinking about Elasticsearch or PostgreSQL, but I am open to suggestions. I tried looking into Time Series Databases like TimescaleDB but found that it is unnecessarily powerful than my needs since the update time is a simple variable.

Thanks for your advice in advance!

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CockroachDB

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A distributed SQL database that scales fast, survives disaster, and thrives everywhere
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      Apache Aurora

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          Docker containers on Mesos run their microservices with consistent configurations at scale, along with Aurora for long-running services and cron jobs.

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          Cassandra logo

          Cassandra

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            Distributed
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            High performance
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            High availability
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            Easy scalability
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            Replication
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            Reliable
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            Multi datacenter deployments
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            Schema optional
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            OLTP
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            Open source
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            Workload separation (via MDC)
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            Fast
          CONS OF CASSANDRA
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            Reliability of replication
          • 1
            Size
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            Updates

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          Thierry Schellenbach
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          1.0 of Stream leveraged Cassandra for storing the feed. Cassandra is a common choice for building feeds. Instagram, for instance started, out with Redis but eventually switched to Cassandra to handle their rapid usage growth. Cassandra can handle write heavy workloads very efficiently.

          Cassandra is a great tool that allows you to scale write capacity simply by adding more nodes, though it is also very complex. This complexity made it hard to diagnose performance fluctuations. Even though we had years of experience with running Cassandra, it still felt like a bit of a black box. When building Stream 2.0 we decided to go for a different approach and build Keevo. Keevo is our in-house key-value store built upon RocksDB, gRPC and Raft.

          RocksDB is a highly performant embeddable database library developed and maintained by Facebook’s data engineering team. RocksDB started as a fork of Google’s LevelDB that introduced several performance improvements for SSD. Nowadays RocksDB is a project on its own and is under active development. It is written in C++ and it’s fast. Have a look at how this benchmark handles 7 million QPS. In terms of technology it’s much more simple than Cassandra.

          This translates into reduced maintenance overhead, improved performance and, most importantly, more consistent performance. It’s interesting to note that LinkedIn also uses RocksDB for their feed.

          #InMemoryDatabases #DataStores #Databases

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          Umair Iftikhar
          Technical Architect at ERP Studio · | 3 upvotes · 430.9K views

          Developing a solution that collects Telemetry Data from different devices, nearly 1000 devices minimum and maximum 12000. Each device is sending 2 packets in 1 second. This is time-series data, and this data definition and different reports are saved on PostgreSQL. Like Building information, maintenance records, etc. I want to know about the best solution. This data is required for Math and ML to run different algorithms. Also, data is raw without definitions and information stored in PostgreSQL. Initially, I went with TimescaleDB due to PostgreSQL support, but to increase in sites, I started facing many issues with timescale DB in terms of flexibility of storing data.

          My major requirement is also the replication of the database for reporting and different purposes. You may also suggest other options other than Druid and Cassandra. But an open source solution is appreciated.

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          Vitess

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              They're critical to the business data and operated by an ecosystem of tools. But once the tools have been used, it was important to verify that the data remains as expected at all times. Even with the best efforts to prevent errors, inconsistencies are bound to creep at any stage. In order to test the code in a comprehensive manner, Slack developed a structure known as a consistency check framework.

              This is a responsive and personalized framework that can meaningfully analyze and report on your data with a number of proactive and reactive benefits. This framework is important because it can help with repair and recovery from an outage or bug, it can help ensure effective data migration through scripts that test the code post-migration, and find bugs throughout the database. This framework helped prevent duplication and identifies the canonical code in each case, running as reusable code.

              The framework was created by creating generic versions of the scanning and reporting code and an interface for the checking code. The checks could be run from the command line and either a single team could be scanned or the whole system. The process was improved over time to further customize the checks and make them more specific. In order to make this framework accessible to everyone, a GUI was added and connected to the internal administrative system. The framework was also modified to include code that can fix certain problems, while others are left for manual intervention. For Slack, such a tool proved extremely beneficial in ensuring data integrity both internally and externally.

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              Clickhouse

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                Fast, very very fast
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                Good compression ratio
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                Horizontally scalable
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                Great CLI
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                Utilizes all CPU resources
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                RESTful
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                Buggy
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                Open-source
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                Great number of SQL functions
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                Server crashes its normal :(
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                Has no transactions
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                Flexible connection options
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                Highly available
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                ODBC
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                Flexible compression options
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                Widely used
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                Open source
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                High availability
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                Cross-platform support
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                Great community
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                Secure
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                Full-text indexing and searching
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                Fast, open, available
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                SSL support
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                Reliable
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                Robust
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                Enterprise Version
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                Easy to set up on all platforms
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                NoSQL access to JSON data type
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                Relational database
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                Easy, light, scalable
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                Sequel Pro (best SQL GUI)
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              CONS OF MYSQL
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                Owned by a company with their own agenda
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                Can't roll back schema changes

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              Tim Abbott

              We've been using PostgreSQL since the very early days of Zulip, but we actually didn't use it from the beginning. Zulip started out as a MySQL project back in 2012, because we'd heard it was a good choice for a startup with a wide community. However, we found that even though we were using the Django ORM for most of our database access, we spent a lot of time fighting with MySQL. Issues ranged from bad collation defaults, to bad query plans which required a lot of manual query tweaks.

              We ended up getting so frustrated that we tried out PostgresQL, and the results were fantastic. We didn't have to do any real customization (just some tuning settings for how big a server we had), and all of our most important queries were faster out of the box. As a result, we were able to delete a bunch of custom queries escaping the ORM that we'd written to make the MySQL query planner happy (because postgres just did the right thing automatically).

              And then after that, we've just gotten a ton of value out of postgres. We use its excellent built-in full-text search, which has helped us avoid needing to bring in a tool like Elasticsearch, and we've really enjoyed features like its partial indexes, which saved us a lot of work adding unnecessary extra tables to get good performance for things like our "unread messages" and "starred messages" indexes.

              I can't recommend it highly enough.

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              Conor Myhrvold
              Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 23 upvotes · 2.3M views

              Our most popular (& controversial!) article to date on the Uber Engineering blog in 3+ yrs. Why we moved from PostgreSQL to MySQL. In essence, it was due to a variety of limitations of Postgres at the time. Fun fact -- earlier in Uber's history we'd actually moved from MySQL to Postgres before switching back for good, & though we published the article in Summer 2016 we haven't looked back since:

              The early architecture of Uber consisted of a monolithic backend application written in Python that used Postgres for data persistence. Since that time, the architecture of Uber has changed significantly, to a model of microservices and new data platforms. Specifically, in many of the cases where we previously used Postgres, we now use Schemaless, a novel database sharding layer built on top of MySQL (https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/). In this article, we’ll explore some of the drawbacks we found with Postgres and explain the decision to build Schemaless and other backend services on top of MySQL:

              https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/

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                Relational database
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                High availability
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                Enterprise class database
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                Sql
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                Great community
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                Easy to setup
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                Heroku
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                Secure by default
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                Postgis
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                Supports Key-Value
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                Great JSON support
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                Cross platform
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                Extensible
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                Replication
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                Triggers
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                Rollback
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                Multiversion concurrency control
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                Open source
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                Heroku Add-on
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                Stable, Simple and Good Performance
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                Powerful
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                Lets be serious, what other SQL DB would you go for?
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                Good documentation
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                Intelligent optimizer
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                Free
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                Scalable
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                Reliable
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                Transactional DDL
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                Modern
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                One stop solution for all things sql no matter the os
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                Relational database with MVCC
              • 5
                Faster Development
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                Developer friendly
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                Full-Text Search
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                Free version
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                Great DB for Transactional system or Application
              • 3
                Relational datanbase
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                search
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                Open-source
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                Excellent source code
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                Full-text
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                Text
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              CONS OF POSTGRESQL
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                Table/index bloatings

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              Jeyabalaji Subramanian

              Recently we were looking at a few robust and cost-effective ways of replicating the data that resides in our production MongoDB to a PostgreSQL database for data warehousing and business intelligence.

              We set ourselves the following criteria for the optimal tool that would do this job: - The data replication must be near real-time, yet it should NOT impact the production database - The data replication must be horizontally scalable (based on the load), asynchronous & crash-resilient

              Based on the above criteria, we selected the following tools to perform the end to end data replication:

              We chose MongoDB Stitch for picking up the changes in the source database. It is the serverless platform from MongoDB. One of the services offered by MongoDB Stitch is Stitch Triggers. Using stitch triggers, you can execute a serverless function (in Node.js) in real time in response to changes in the database. When there are a lot of database changes, Stitch automatically "feeds forward" these changes through an asynchronous queue.

              We chose Amazon SQS as the pipe / message backbone for communicating the changes from MongoDB to our own replication service. Interestingly enough, MongoDB stitch offers integration with AWS services.

              In the Node.js function, we wrote minimal functionality to communicate the database changes (insert / update / delete / replace) to Amazon SQS.

              Next we wrote a minimal micro-service in Python to listen to the message events on SQS, pickup the data payload & mirror the DB changes on to the target Data warehouse. We implemented source data to target data translation by modelling target table structures through SQLAlchemy . We deployed this micro-service as AWS Lambda with Zappa. With Zappa, deploying your services as event-driven & horizontally scalable Lambda service is dumb-easy.

              In the end, we got to implement a highly scalable near realtime Change Data Replication service that "works" and deployed to production in a matter of few days!

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              Tim Abbott

              We've been using PostgreSQL since the very early days of Zulip, but we actually didn't use it from the beginning. Zulip started out as a MySQL project back in 2012, because we'd heard it was a good choice for a startup with a wide community. However, we found that even though we were using the Django ORM for most of our database access, we spent a lot of time fighting with MySQL. Issues ranged from bad collation defaults, to bad query plans which required a lot of manual query tweaks.

              We ended up getting so frustrated that we tried out PostgresQL, and the results were fantastic. We didn't have to do any real customization (just some tuning settings for how big a server we had), and all of our most important queries were faster out of the box. As a result, we were able to delete a bunch of custom queries escaping the ORM that we'd written to make the MySQL query planner happy (because postgres just did the right thing automatically).

              And then after that, we've just gotten a ton of value out of postgres. We use its excellent built-in full-text search, which has helped us avoid needing to bring in a tool like Elasticsearch, and we've really enjoyed features like its partial indexes, which saved us a lot of work adding unnecessary extra tables to get good performance for things like our "unread messages" and "starred messages" indexes.

              I can't recommend it highly enough.

              See more