PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's

·Hacker News··

The critics are right: PostgreSQL's MVCC bloats tables and amplifies writes. Oracle, InnoDB, SQL Server, MongoDB, LSM stores, and etcd answer the same four design questions differently, and each pays for it somewhere else.

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