MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL vs. ScyllaDB: Tractian’s Experience

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https://tractian.com/en/about is a machine intelligence company that provides industrial monitoring systems. We recognized that to stay ahead in the fast-paced world of real-time machine learning, we needed a data infrastructure that was flexible, scalable and highly performant.

We looked at four characteristics of those databases — data model, query language, https://thenewstack.io/databases-what-to-know-about-partitioning/ and replication — and used these characteristics as decision criteria for our next steps.

Data model: MongoDB uses a document-oriented data model where data is stored in BSON (Binary JSON) format.

Data model: ScyllaDB uses a wide column-family data model, which is similar to Apache Cassandra.

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