I've worked at a company that was doing > 20,000 TPS (transactions/sec) on a single PG instance with no problem. That is baby-tier usage for a DB. As far as w

I've worked at a company that was doing > 20,000 TPS (transactions/sec) on a single PG instance with no problem. That is baby-tier usage for a DB. As far as why you should give up MySQL like I did four years ago: http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else