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I have taken the Cloud computing specialization in Coursera which was taught by Dr. Gupta. One of the best courses I have taken. Excited for this one. They should offer an Online m…

It hasn't changed much. But new OLAP features have come up such as parallel queries and for those, the existing cache architecture doesn't make sense since OLAP is full of sequenti…

Author here. > I was surprised to learn Postgres doesn't use direct read/write (O_DIRECT) to bypass kernel caches. It is more related to the database being platform neutral. The co…

So let me try to summarise this. Poor replica MVCC support They are actually pointing to a blog article written in 2010 -> http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/tradeoffs_in_hot_standby_depl…

Well, for one thing, if they say schemaless, then you are using the wrong tool for the job. Sure postgres has JSONB (comparing to mongo db), Key value store such as HStore, but the…

>community of MySQL is much better and the tools available are more mature Can you backup your statements with some facts. I have seen the postgres community to be much better part…

Yeah, I sort of skipped over that detail, thanks for pointing it out, ill include it in the post.