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> any valid reason

Well, cost, right? Cost is a reason why someone may not want to use a traditional RDBMS. AWS RDS and GCP Cloud SQL aren't exactly the cheapest solutions out there.

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Postgres is free. Put it on a computer. Cost is certainly not an argument against Postgres cause it can run on any back end that runs Linux.

Out of not cheaper to run a postgres server than an embedded sqlite DB. There is more to the cost than just the software license.

Who pays for the computer and bandwidth?

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