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    Today in things that are not surprising.

    Snark aside, the postgres folks have been doing lots of work on NoSQL type data storage for years. There’s a bunch of neat stuff with JSON coming in 9.4, notably the jsonb type which doesn’t require internal re-parsing for postgres, so it can be queried a lot faster and indexed much more efficiently.

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      I’m presenting on almost exactly this at osdc 2014 .. . the best thing about it in my opinion is that you can do joins between your relational and your non-relational (json) data.

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        I would be interested in seeing how TokuMX compares against Postgres.