PostgreSQL as the Optimal Choice for Durable Workflow Execution
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Summary
The article discusses the decision to use PostgreSQL (Postgres) as the data store for a durable workflows library, emphasizing its scalability and performance benefits for workflow metadata management. It highlights the simplicity of core operations like checkpointing and recovery, while also noting nontechnical advantages such as Postgres's popularity and open-source nature.
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Choosing the right one is critical to ensure workflows are scalable and performant.
Postgres is popular and open-source, making it a practical choice for durable workflow execution.
In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into why we chose to build DBOS durable workflow execution on the PostgreSQL DBMS.
