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Who needs MongoDB when you have JSONB? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] fxdave@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's not the point of JSONB. Use normalized tables whenever you can. JSONB allows you to store a document with unknown structure, and it allows you to access that data within SQL.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

I probably have just run into a bad example of its use. I can see it being useful for unknown documents.