What I liked about postgres (even as long time ago as 5-10 years ago) was that it tried to do things in an explainable and standards compliant way even if it mo

What I liked about postgres (even as long time ago as 5-10 years ago) was that it tried to do things in an explainable and standards compliant way even if it mostly did not beat MySQL on latency. This never bothered me because my view had been to scale horizontally when needed and a db that led itself to better control plane development was more important than aggregate single node performance. Just my 2c.