MySQL? I mean, it doesn't have some of the cool features of postgres, but those cool features are perhaps what people indirectly complain about when they gripe

MySQL? I mean, it doesn't have some of the cool features of postgres, but those cool features are perhaps what people indirectly complain about when they gripe about its complexity and footprint. MySQL performs well, is popular (in the sense of broad community support), and relatively painless to stand up. I would consider it somewhere between SQLite and Postgres, though further towards the latter.