I'm also interested to know which frameworks you're referring to? Regarding Node and Mongo I imagine that they are well suited because Mongo stores JSON documents and Node, being Javascript, has first class support for JSON. Python and PostgreSQL's relationship might be more of a principled one? Pythonic being a characteristic not dissimilar to stable, reliable and of high quality. On 8 May 2017 at 21:22, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/08/2017 05:45 PM, Paul Hughes wrote: >> >> Thank you for the links. I'm glad there are other languages that are >> working with PostgreSQL. My question still remains though - why is it that >> all the largest web platforms that have used PostgreSQL *specifically* >> choose Python as their back-end language? Why are Postgres and Python so >> married, in the same way that Node.js is largely married to MondogDB? > > > I think you are going to have name frameworks, because AFAIK Drupal uses > PHP, Ruby on Rails uses Rails and so on: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_frameworks > > As to why Postgres and Python seem to be attached I would say that is > because about the time people started looking for an alternative to > MySQL/PHP, Python reached the state and breadth of distribution to became > the language to pair with Postgres. > >> >> >> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> On 05/08/2017 02:26 PM, Paul Hughes wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I noticed that most of the largest web platforms that use >> PostgreSQL as >> their primary database, also use Python as their primary back-end >> language. Yet, according to every benchmark I could find over >> the last >> couple of years, back-end languages like PHP, HHVM, and Node.JS >> outperform Python by 2x to 8x! >> >> >> Postgres does not really care what you use to pull data from it. >> There are many libraries across many languages that you can use. >> >> >> >> >> >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> >> Virus-free. www.avast.com >> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> >> >> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Neil Anderson neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.postgrescompare.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
