For me it’s their extensive selection of foreign data wrappers and extensions which allow for it to be incredibly integrated and work with novel paradigms. It w

For me it’s their extensive selection of foreign data wrappers and extensions which allow for it to be incredibly integrated and work with novel paradigms. It was the first by several years to support JSON fields and window functions, but I was pleased to see those in MySQL 8. For extremely write-heavy use cases I think MySQL wins as Postgres tends to want every materialized view current before completing an insert. It’s license has never been in question, where MySQL, Percona, and MariaDb have been a source of concern/confusion over the years. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers IMAP, GitHub, BigQuery, Faker and CSV have been awesome for me, but don’t tend to be 100% supported by public cloud managed DB services. I’ve heard some can be flaky. INSERT INTO public.people SELECT ssn, name, phone_number FROM faker.people; That is a way to generate a ton of fake records for integration and load testing. Very elegant!