Chris Travers wrote: > Also MySQL has a query cache that allows the results of very common queries to be much faster. I have used that feature, and it has bitten me: https://stackoverflow.com/q/44244482/6464308 I guess only some rather pathological workloads really benefit from that. > For updates, MySQL avoids a lot of index write overhead. PostgreSQL has more overhead per update. That is what I meant when I said that PostgreSQL is less suitable for a key-value store. There is HOT update which can mitigate the problem if the updated columns are not indexed. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com