A very popular design I see is often this:

        - PostgreSQL for account, inventory, transactional; and all writes
        - NoSQL (Redis, Riak, Mongo, etc) for read-only index postgres (almost 
like a read-through cache) and assembled documents


On Jan 5, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Raymond Cote wrote:

> I’m familiar with both PostgreSQL and Riak (1.4, not 2.0). 
> I know that Riak 2.0 now offers strong consistency. Have not yet seen what 
> that does to performance. 
> Big plusses for PostgreSQL:
>   - you can do both relational and NOSQL tasks (the Binary JSON in the latest 
> PostgreSQL).
>   - well-tested consistency, ACID, etc.
>   - lots of adapters and support. 
>   - big community
> 
> Big plusses for Riak:
>  - multi-master replication
>  - multi-data center replication
>  - easy to scale up
> 
> We use PostgreSQL in combination with Riak for data storage (we have a 
> tokenization service). 
> We're currently using the EnterpriseDB multi-master PostgreSQL replication 
> and are quite happy with it. 
> The replication runs periodically, not streaming, so there is at least a 1 
> second delay for replication to occur. 
> Riak replicates quicker — but then you don’t have the strong relational 
> structure on top. 
> 
> As mentioned earlier, ‘exchange…trade…asset’ is a bit vague. 
> In addition to just storing things, you’ll need to keep track of all sorts of 
> log-in and contact info — perhaps not ideal for Riak. 
> Probably best to consider precisely what traits your planned application has 
> and then look to match against the database storage. 
> May even end up with a mix of the two just as we have. 
> 
> Your decision may also depend on which development language/framework you 
> chose for the implementation. 



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