I am evaluating postgres for as a datastore for our webapp. We are moving away from a triple store db due to performance issues.
Our data model consists of sets of user defined attributes. Approx 10% of the attributes tend to be 100% filled with 50% of the attributes having approx 25% filled. This is fairly sparse data, and it seems that jsonb or hstore will be best for us.
Unfortunately, from my understanding, postres doesn't support fulltext search across hstore or jsonb key:values or even the entire document. While this is not a deal breaker, this would be a great feature to have. We have been experimenting w/ elasticsearch a bit, and particularly enjoy this feature, however we don't really want to involve the complexity and overhead of adding elasticsearch in front of our datasource right now.
An idea that has come up is to use a materialized view or secondary table with triggers, where we would have 3 columns (id, key, value).
I think this would allow us to store a tsvector and gin index. Giving us the ability to use fulltext search on k:v pairs, then join the original data on the id field to return the entire record.
is anyone currently doing this? Is there a better alternative? Any performance issues that immediately jump out ( I realize the writes will take longer)?
the nature of our data is "relatively" static with bulk uploads (100 - 1000 records). So we can sacrifice some write performance.
RJ
