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shawn-butler on Nov 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database bui...

While technically correct I assume the parent was referring to hstore [0] which has both GIST and GIN indexes as well as btree and hash for equality.

With some simple formatting functions (its just json after all) it's sixes to me.

[0] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/hstore.html

dbuxton on Nov 9, 2012 [–]

hstore is great, I won't hear a word against it, but it doesn't deal with complex nested objects like JSON can (I would love to be wrong about this) - it's just a key/value store with indexing of the objects inside.

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