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by dikei 895 days ago
>> The free alternative would be Mysql/Mariadb + Galera Cluster. Not as solid as proprietary ones, but far easier to use and less buggy than Postgres + tons of tools.

Until someone accidentally run an expensive DDL on your Galera Cluster: now your cluster is down for hours without anyway to cancel that query except nuking the entire database and restore from backup.