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I think that the main reason for a long time was (a) being able to install mysql quickly, and (b) having a decent SQL UI, which was MySqlWorkbench.

Things might have changed now for Postgres.

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The thing is, features like Postgres' native UUID column types, JSONB and HStore are killer features that give developers data flexibility they didn't use to have before, meaning with one database I can go between relational or MongoDB-style JSON dumping where needed.

This, plus strong consistency to prevent shooting yourself in the foot, is valuable for 99% of use cases where you don't need insane web scale.

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