I've experimented with migrating from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB and YugabyteDB. It makes sense that a newsql DB is slower but compared to to a local PostgreSQL

I've experimented with migrating from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB and YugabyteDB. It makes sense that a newsql DB is slower but compared to to a local PostgreSQL cluster it was unacceptably slow. You lose features and are now dependent on a heavily VC funded startup that may not make it.