Comment by Nathanba

yes the easy setup with crdb is really attractive but then you realize that they hide a few very important features behind the paid option. No incremental backups and no partitions (I think of any kind...). Those are some big features to lose, obviously I'm not complaining, just comparing. That was the main reason why I started developing my project in MySQL because at least MySQL has a lot of different free providers. YugabyteDB exists for Postgres too but initially I was more impressed with Vitess and TiDB because TiDB is used by some really huge chinese companies and if they don't have a problem then it must be okay. Unfortunately TiDB essentially doesn't want you to run a single node, ever, and their smallest recommended deployment is 5 nodes. That's a lot. Citus also exists for Postgres but their docs basically tell you that it's only recommended for analytics so I don't know what to think of it. And it sounds like all it's doing is a basic master-slave postgres setup with quite a few manual things you have to do to even benefit (manually altering tables to make them sharded/partitioned)