Will AWS Babelfish Succeed Moving Developers Away from SQL Server to Postgres?

In AWS re-invent, Amazon announced open sourcing Babelfish for PostgreSQL, a SQL Server-compatible end-point for PostgreSQL to make PostgreSQL fluent in understanding communication from apps written for SQL Server. Let us discuss what is this technology and whether if its gonna really move developers away form Microsoft SQL Server to Postgres Resources https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/want-more-postgresql-you-just-might-like-babelfish/ Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:30 Postgres vs SQLServer 5:20 What is Babelfish? 9:40 Why Babelfish May not Work 10:06 Will Babelfish Includes everything? 11:46 BabelFish is an Extra Layer 13:35 What REALLY is Babelfish? 15:00 Performance

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Welcome to the Backend Engineering Show podcast with your host Hussein Nasser. If you like software engineering you’ve come to the right place. I discuss all sorts of software engineering technologies and news with specific focus on the backend. All opinions are my own. Most of my content in the podcast is an audio version of videos I post on my youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr 🧑‍🏫 Courses I Teach https://husseinnasser.com/courses