Postgres became our goto RDMBS because of JSON support. It is really sad it has taken Microsoft this long to get JSON native database support. It makes using it

Postgres became our goto RDMBS because of JSON support. It is really sad it has taken Microsoft this long to get JSON native database support. It makes using it for .NET projects more difficult than competitors or NoSQL databases. When clients pick .NET we always get a little annoyance every time we need to use JSON in the database which we solve with caching/redis/mongo/file io/compression depending on the situation. JSON support has lagged in all areas of Microsoft development platforms. They didn't even embrace it or most .NET developers weren't even using is or knew what it was until WCF in 2006-2007 when it had been heavily used for years. Newtonsoft really pushed it in the Microsoft/.NET world which is awesome. 10 years later after rest web services and SOAP went away in favor of REST/JSON, it is finally getting into MS SQL Server. MS SQL Server had support for XML searching early, poor showing in JSON support but glad they are getting it done.