postgresql-async

Been watching this DB for a while. Glad to see it enter beta. I recommend including https://github.com/mauricio/postgresql-async on https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/install-client-drivers.ht... (it's my favorite Postgres client, it's very fast).

> I have yet to see a real use case for Mongo unless you are building a Facebook clone. Can someone suggest when it is actually useful over a properly tuned relational database? Seamless auto-sharding, supported as a first-class use case. Particularly in a cloud environment where you can have your system automatically spin up more hosts as load increases (and take them down as load drops) with zero human intervention, which is really nice. There are plenty of alternatives in that space nowadays (more than when mongo first came out), and reasonable people can disagree over whether to use mongo rather than e.g. cassandra, riak, or shonky third-party clustering addons for mysql/postgresql, but I've yet to see an affordable relational database with out-of-the-box auto-sharding support that comes anywhere close to what mongo offers. (Also, fir

There is this, but it's not particularly mature: https://github.com/mauricio/postgresql-async I also use https://github.com/etaty/rediscala for accessing redis. But even without async drivers for MySQL, you can still do: val sqlResult: Future[StuffFromSql] = future { val stmt = connection.createStatement("...") ... } This will tie up a thread, but you can still run other actions in parallel with it.