&gt; Postgres, but that anyone uses Microsoft or Oracle at all. Not only do they cost a lot, but from a purely technical standpoint they are worse.<p>Based on what? Both commercial databases have incredible features, tooling and extensions that leave postgres behind. Postgres today doesn&#x27;t even have a solid scale-up or scale-out strategy.<p>It does have nice SQL support and makes developer lives a little easier but this isnt anywhere close to making it the absolute winner technically.