&gt; MySQL has been one problem after another.<p>Please elaborate. MySQL&#x2F;MaraiaDB can be pretty relaxed when it comes to SQL standards (which you can disable&#x2F;tweak), but I&#x27;ve yet to have data loss or data corruption. And speaking from experience - the system would be at it&#x27;s knees and MySQL would happily do it&#x27;s best to answer queries.<p>I&#x27;m not saying Postgres isn&#x27;t stable (haven&#x27;t really used it) - I&#x27;m just rather suspicious of the comments here. I find it hard to believe that it&#x27;s as broken as people here claim when big businesses are using it [1].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1113381&#x2F;what-databases-do-the-world-wide-webs-biggest-sites-run-on" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1113381&#x2F;what-databases-do...</a>