"My Laptop Is Faster Than Your Cloud" is similar to the things I often say. I've long dismayed at the fact that cloud instances of databases(RDS), build servers, and various other things I need have often been less powerful than the laptop I'm using and at the same time so costly that a few months of rent on them would pay for my laptop.
On the other hand, Postgres can be shockingly fast. With a little care I've been able to make it beat the stuffing out of most other DBs and various big data tools like Spark(running locally, not massively scaled out of course). The article starts out saying it's 80x faster than Postgres. That level of difference from Postgres doesn't impress me, it makes me stop reading and become deeply suspicious that the author either doesn't know anything about how to make PG run well or is cherry picking one of the very few tasks PG doesn't do well or has had a regression in.
On the other hand, Postgres can be shockingly fast. With a little care I've been able to make it beat the stuffing out of most other DBs and various big data tools like Spark(running locally, not massively scaled out of course). The article starts out saying it's 80x faster than Postgres. That level of difference from Postgres doesn't impress me, it makes me stop reading and become deeply suspicious that the author either doesn't know anything about how to make PG run well or is cherry picking one of the very few tasks PG doesn't do well or has had a regression in.