One use case would be with Google App Engine. Other than it's Datastore [0] or CloudSQL [1], you don't have access to other databases. So this would be a great

One use case would be with Google App Engine. Other than it's Datastore [0] or CloudSQL [1], you don't have access to other databases. So this would be a great way to have Postgresql as a backend to your app. [0] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/articles/datastore/overview https://cloud.google.com/appengine/articles/datastore/overvi... [1] https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/introduction https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/introduction