PostgreSQL is way more featureful than MySQL, and the recent parallelization optimizations do add a significant competitive advantage over MySQL. What kept MySQ

PostgreSQL is way more featureful than MySQL, and the recent parallelization optimizations do add a significant competitive advantage over MySQL. What kept MySQL in the popularity lead for so long, though, was its solid async replication story. It wasn't until fairly recently that Postgres had that natively, rather than by third parties.