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Which Database Should You Actually Use?

The right database for your use case is rarely the trendy one. Let's find out what you actually need.

Includes a personalized analysis written by Seth based on 20+ years of engineering and startup experience.

15 questions · ~3 minutes
Question 1 of 15 Scale & Volume

How much data are you expecting to store?

Question 2 of 15 Query Complexity

How important are complex queries (JOINs, aggregations, window functions)?

Question 3 of 15 Scale & Volume

How many concurrent users/connections do you need to support?

Question 4 of 15 Query Complexity

How structured is your data?

Question 5 of 15 Operations & Management

Who's going to manage this database in production?

Question 6 of 15 Feature Requirements

How critical is ACID compliance (transactions, data consistency)?

Question 7 of 15 Feature Requirements

Do you need vector/embedding search for AI features?

Question 8 of 15 Operations & Management

What's your deployment environment?

Question 9 of 15 Scale & Volume

How fast does your data change?

Question 10 of 15 Operations & Management

What's your budget situation for database infrastructure?

Question 11 of 15 Edge Case Requirements

Do you need multi-region or active-active replication?

Question 12 of 15 Edge Case Requirements

Do you need full-text search or complex search capabilities?

Question 13 of 15 Edge Case Requirements

Do you have time-series or sensor/IoT data requirements?

Question 14 of 15 Edge Case Requirements

Do you have highly connected data that requires graph traversal?

Question 15 of 15 Backup & Recovery

What are your backup and recovery requirements?

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