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As a friend said to me a couple weeks ago -- "Either use Postgres, or have a darn good reason why you don't!"

I have a lot of reasons not to use Postgres, and they're all historical reasons.

This is the correct answer but no one wants to hear this in 2019.

Postgres has been my go to DB for my projects. It's fast, simple and has decades of research and battle tested systems to pull knowledge from.

Your comment reminds me of a PyCon 2017 talk by Raymond Hettinger where he details the improvements in Python dictionaries from 2.7 to 3.6 which effectively amounted to rediscovering and re-implementing what was standard in databases decades ago.

"Modern Python Dictionaries A confluence of a dozen great ideas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg&ab_channel=PyCon...

I would add Sproc's and PL/SQL (or what ever postgress calls it)