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It is true, that you should not chose blindly, but a majority of use cases do require a relational database. You use one of specialized databases when you have a specialized use case.

The reason why Postgres is so popular here is because if you want to have an open source solution, Postgres is the best available. I'm sure there are better proprietary solutions, but even though it is free, PG is pretty darn close to them.




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