I agree with your general sentiment, but there actually exists a GIS extensions for SQLite, SpatiaLite[1], so there is no "complete lack of support for GIS". St

I agree with your general sentiment, but there actually exists a GIS extensions for SQLite, SpatiaLite[1], so there is no "complete lack of support for GIS". Still I think PostGIS is vastly superior to most if not all of its competitors. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpatiaLite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpatiaLite