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		pas on Sept 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tes... Cassandra is, but you're forced into a very simplistic data (sharding) model. (And probably Riak is too, but haven't used it.)

chaostheory on Sept 29, 2014 [–]

Cassandra is easier to scale than mongo, and yeah Riak is even easier, but they're still not easy unless you don't care as much about consistency and you can wait, and if your app is more about writes than reads.

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