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It's sad that this was downvoted. It's literally true. MongoDB vs. vanilla Postgres is not in Postgres' favor with respect to horizontal scaling. It's the same situation with Postgres vs. MySQL.

That being said there are plenty of ways to shard Postgres that are free, e.g. Citus. It's also questionable whether many need sharding. You can go a long way with simply a replica.

Postgres also has plenty of its own strengths. For one, you can get a managed solution without being locked into MongoDB the company.



Citus is owned by Microsoft.

And history has not been nice to startups like this continuing their products over the long term.

It's why unless it is built-in and supported it's not feasible for most to depend on it.


that's fair, but that's true of mongodb itself too. I wouldn't count that against either of them.


MongoDB makes money selling and supporting MongoDB.

Microsoft does not make money supporting Citus.




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