21 May 2013 In playing with GitStreams, I've made the switch from MySQL to Postgres. The reason for the switch was mostly shaming from Jeremy Dunck, Selena Deckelmann and a few others. The results, however were quite surprising. Storage Efficiency Operating on a budget $20/month Linode server (affiliate link), disk space is precious to me. In using MySQL, my data files were hovering just under 8GB for a couple of million rows of mostly-JSON data. After the migration, my size-on-disk dropped t...
