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How to Use PostgreSQL as a Cache, Queue, and Search Engine

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Blog PostgreSQL Performance FreeCodeCamp

This article was originally published on freeCodeCamp . Real benchmark data showing how PostgreSQL’s built-in features (UNLOGGED tables, SKIP LOCKED, tsvector + GIN, LISTEN/NOTIFY) compare against naive patterns for caching, job queues, full-text search, and pub/sub.

The benchmark project is open source if you want to reproduce the results.

Aaron Yong
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Aaron Yong
Building things for the web. Writing about development, Linux, cloud, and everything in between.

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