> These PostgreSQL features are relatively recent. The jsonb column type dates back to 9.4, which was released in Dec 2014, less than three years ago. MongoDB had been around for well over five years by that point.
It's much much harder to design a reliable engine than a new datatype.
> There are few applications that need distributed scalability beyond what PostgreSQL can provide, but I'd argue that it's not uncommon to have problems with Oracle scalability, if you don't have deep pockets for licensing.
Yes they are, but chances are you don't have that need. You're not Google or Facebook.
You also picked up a really bad database to talk about scalability[1]
It's much much harder to design a reliable engine than a new datatype.
> There are few applications that need distributed scalability beyond what PostgreSQL can provide, but I'd argue that it's not uncommon to have problems with Oracle scalability, if you don't have deep pockets for licensing.
Yes they are, but chances are you don't have that need. You're not Google or Facebook.
You also picked up a really bad database to talk about scalability[1]
[1] https://www.datastax.com/wp-content/themes/datastax-2014-08/...