We definitely need more and better low level key-value stores, especially write-optimized ones. It sounds like InfluxDB has correctly identified the pain points with LevelDB and LMDB, but it&#x27;s yet to be seen whether they&#x27;ve succeeded in addressing them. The article kind of petered out without a proper conclusion.<p>The people who are talking about Postgres in this thread are thoroughly confused. This isn&#x27;t a competitor to Postgres, this is a platform for building a competitor to Postgres (or, hypothetically, something Postgres itself could use). I guess maybe they mean InfluxDB rather than the subject of the article.