Ask HN: Which is your go to Database to use in a project?

Depends entirely on the type of project and the data.

Data that models easily via sql? Percona Xtradb Cluster works pretty well.

Data that models better as a hierarchy of objects? OpenLDAP is pretty amazing.

But a project using either of those is likely to also use eg redis+qless for processing out of band tasks.

If it’s a utility that needs to store some data it might use SQLite.

My point is that understanding how various options can be used is likely to give a better result than just having a “goto” square peg and hammering it into every hole you find, regardless of shape.

Postgres managed on RDS for projects that make money

I avoid a db or use dynamodb for all other toy projects