
Nik and Michael discuss when not to use Postgres — specifically use cases where it still makes sense to store data in another system. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Just use Postgres (blog post by Ethan McCue) https://mccue.dev/pages/8-16-24-just-use-postgres Just Use Postgres for Everything (blog post by Stephan Schmidt) https://www.amazingcto.com/postgres-for-everything Real-time analytics episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/real-time-analytics Crunchy Data Joins Snowflake https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/crunchy-data-joins-snowflake Two sizes fit most: PostgreSQL and Clickhouse (blog post by Sid Sijbrandij) https://about.gitlab.com/blog/two-sizes-fit-most-postgresql-and-clickhouse pg_duckdb episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/pg_duckdb Cloudberry https://github.com/apache/cloudberry Time-series considerations episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/time-series-considerations Queues in Postgres episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/queues-in-postgres Large Objects https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/largeobjects.html PGlite https://pglite.dev ParadeDB https://www.paradedb.com ZomboDB https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb turbopuffer https://turbopuffer.com HNSW vs. DiskANN (blog post by Haziqa Sajid) https://www.tigerdata.com/learn/hnsw-vs-diskann SPANN: Highly-efficient Billion-scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (paper) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/SPANN_finalversion1.pdf Amazon S3 Vectors https://aws.amazon.com/s3/features/vectors Iterative Index Scans added to pgvector in 0.8.0 https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/678 S3 FDW from Supabase https://github.com/supabase/wrappers/tree/main/wrappers/src/fdw/s3_fdw ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork