<story><title>PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL</title><url>https://postgis.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Ahmed90</author><text>4 years ago one of my clients wanted to &amp;quot;donate&amp;quot; a system for the local fire department to help them do a quick proximity search to find the fire hydrants and quickly choose the healthy one near the fire.&lt;p&gt;And since it was charity and had a bunch of private data Google was not an option ($$$$), so I (just a full-stack developer back then) was like &amp;quot;listen I have no idea what is this GIS stuff, but I&amp;#x27;ll give it a try&amp;quot;, after a quick research boom PostGIS, reading the docs and testing things, plus QGIS to visualize and to help understand it better 10&amp;#x2F;10!&lt;p&gt;That was my unintentional &amp;quot;career&amp;quot; shift, thanks to PostGIS I&amp;#x27;m now a senior dev at the largest food delivery company (local), specialized in GIS and realtime data driven systems using PostGIS everyday lol</text></comment>
<story><title>PostGIS – Spatial and Geographic Objects for PostgreSQL</title><url>https://postgis.net/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gardaani</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s an interesting performance comparison of PostgreSQL with PostGIS and MongoDB. PostgreSQL outperformed MongoDB in almost all their cases. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;link.springer.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;10.1007&amp;#x2F;s10707-020-00407-w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;link.springer.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;10.1007&amp;#x2F;s10707-020-00407-w&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve decided to use PostgreSQL in my projects.</text></comment>