CockroachDB and Yugabyte are both wire-compatible with Postgres and follow its syntax and feature set to a large extent. They offer a reasonably clean upgrade p

CockroachDB and Yugabyte are both wire-compatible with Postgres and follow its syntax and feature set to a large extent. They offer a reasonably clean upgrade path to a distributed database while still using the same tools you use with vanilla Postgres. Seeing more and more projects that are either compatible or are a value-add on top of Postgres. Not seeing the same level variability of ecosystem in the MySQL world. There's MariaDB, which adds cool features like temporal tables, but PG has the aforementioned distributed DBs along with Citius, TimescaleDB for time series, AWS Redshift for OLAP, ZomboDB for enhanced full text search, Apache MADLib for big data machine learning within the database, etc. I 100% agree that most projects don't need anything beyond SQLite (or its OLAP cousin DuckDB). More and more it looks like a relatively clean migration path from the small to the heavily concurrent to the high end niche. Great time to be a data worker.