&gt; There&#x27;s been a large migration off of mysql to postgres<p>No there hasn&#x27;t:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;db-engines.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;ranking" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;db-engines.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;ranking</a><p>Which makes sense since they aren&#x27;t really playing in the same space. The benefits of PostgreSQL are largely lost on typical MySQL use cases (light load, simple CRUD access patterns, limited use of JSON&#x2F;BSON etc).