Why I switched from Postgres to MongoDB, then to Neo4j | Linux Today

Why I switched from Postgres to MongoDB, then to Neo4j

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Oct 8, 2014

This article is about how he went from using Postgres to MongoDB, then finally to Neo4j. Postgres (or PostgreSQL) is a relational database, while MongoDB and Neo4j are NoSQL databases. MongoDB is, of course, the most popular NoSQL database, while Neo4j is the most popular NoSQL graph database. All three database applications are Free Software.

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