Is anyone on Hacker News using YugabyteDB? While it offers PostgreSQL compatibility, I’ve found that simply converting a standard, normalized PostgreSQL database doesn’t work well in practice. Instead, you need to design your database with YugabyteDB’s distributed architecture in mind.

YugabyteDB—and CockroachDB, for that matter—seem to be somewhat niche. Despite the potential of distributed databases, you rarely hear about people using them.