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Why we chose Postgres for the ledger

We benchmarked four data stores against the workload. Postgres won — but not for the reason we expected.

MTMaya Tran· Engineering Lead10 min read

We benchmarked four data stores against the workload. Postgres won — but not for the reason we expected.

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