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		Kiro on Sept 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord There's a reason all the big chat apps are using NoSQL.

lpcvoid on Sept 7, 2021 [–]

I refuse to believe this is due to technical reasons, as long as we are talking ACID compliant data storage. A well configured PostgreSQL will blow MongoDB out of the water while actually caring about your data.

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