Can someone explain to my why people are still recommending mysql over postgres? This is a serious question, it just seems that Postgres has more features and I

Can someone explain to my why people are still recommending mysql over postgres? This is a serious question, it just seems that Postgres has more features and I cant think of any good reasons mysql would scale any differently other than it has been along a little longer (so there are more blog posts + experienced engineers) ? "MySQL is mature, stable and it just works. Not only do we use it, but it’s also used by plenty of other companies pushing even bigger scale. MySQL supports our need for ordering data requests, selecting certain ranges of data and row-level transactions. It has a hell of a lot more features, but we don’t need or use them. But, MySQL is a single box solution, hence the need to shard our data. Here’s our solution:" what about that paragraph is not true of postgres also ? UPDATE: This schemaless json reminds me of this friendfeed blog post from years ago: https://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql https://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql