Postgres is probably enough

Before adding a fourth datastore, check what Postgres already does.

A. Siddiqui1 July 20266 min read

Queues, full-text search, JSON documents, geospatial data — Postgres handles all of them adequately at the scale most teams operate at.

The operational cost of variety

Every additional datastore is another backup strategy, another failover runbook, another on-call surprise.

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