#1 has gotten significantly better since 9.0. There are still issues, but it continues to get better. For #2, there are plenty of managed PG services (AWS RDS,

#1 has gotten significantly better since 9.0. There are still issues, but it continues to get better. For #2, there are plenty of managed PG services (AWS RDS, Heroku, etc) if you have trouble with the sysadmin. For #4, Postgres has materialized view support in 9.3 with some improvements in 9.4. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.3 https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_... https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.4 https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_...