When shopping for an open source SQL database, cool is not the first thing in your mind. You are looking for familiarity, compatibility, reliability, viability

When shopping for an open source SQL database, cool is not the first thing in your mind. You are looking for familiarity, compatibility, reliability, viability etc etc, lots of -ity words that are decidedly uncool but, ahem, realy important. What made postgres "cool" for me was the realisation that you get more than what you bargain for: > More than "just a database", it's a data platform This feeling of being also relevant for the evolving world of data engineerimg comes from noSQL functionality like JSON support and also extensions that allow graph operations. So postgres is cool because it is a reliable workhorse that wont let you down but its codebase and community have also the DNA of a racehorse that can win an occasional race for you. What else can you ask of a horse? :-)