Databases

Select the best database and provider for admin capabilities.

📄️ Convex

A reactive backend that syncs state between clients and server in real-time. Functions run server-side, data updates push to all subscribers automatically, and the type system spans the full stack.

🗃️ Postgres

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Questions

Which database architecture decision — relational versus document, centralized versus distributed, or cloud-managed versus self-hosted — has the most downstream impact on application flexibility?

• At what query complexity level does a relational database's join capabilities become essential versus a document database's flexibility being sufficient?
• How does on-chain data storage change the architecture for applications that need both verifiability and query performance?
• Which database category — OLTP, OLAP, or vector — is most likely to converge into a unified product over the next 5 years?