Overview Love PostgreSQL as a database, but hate having to provision it for your Python programs? The pgserver library spins up a no-maintenance, self-contained instance of PostgreSQL inside a Python ...

I remember that rant -- essentially he said that you had to implement transactions yourself, and if you wanted a database which implemented them it was because you were stupid. I have steered clear of ...

I haven't looked at MySQL for a while, and I understand it's improved. But certainly a few years ago, it was very much insufficient in terms of features for anything but the least demanding tasks.