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gshulegaard on May 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling to 100M: MySQL Is a Better NoSQL

Just curious, but why use HStore instead of JSONB?

calpaterson on May 24, 2016 [–]

Presumably because HStore predates JSONB

gshulegaard on May 24, 2016 | [–]

While this is the conventional wisdom, I just wanted to make sure there wasn't some obscure benefit of HStore over JSONB that I wasn't aware of yet.

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