Postgres isn't slow, your storage is

kept by eddie oct 16

PostgreSQL performance issues are typically rooted in inadequate storage setups—slow disks or misconfigured I/O—rather than inherent slowness of the database engine itself.

Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres — PlanetScale
PlanetScale announces TIN, a Postgres full‑text search extension that outperforms existing indexes with up to 57× higher query throughput and lower latency.
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Do you even need a database?
The article argues that for many small-scale, read-heavy, or single-user applications, flat files like JSON can outperform a full DBMS, but warns that scaling or adding write concurrency will force you to rebuild a database.
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