--- title: Relational Databases: The Boring but Essential Choice description: A short take advocating that relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB) should remain the default choice for most product teams. They provide... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/relational-databases-the-boring-but-essential-choice-vnukglede twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Relational Databases: The Boring but Essential Choice | daily.dev og:description: A short take advocating that relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB) should remain the default choice for most product teams. They provide... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/relational-databases-the-boring-but-essential-choice-vnukglede og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vnUkglEDE.png og:image:alt: Relational Databases: The Boring but Essential Choice og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Relational Databases: The Boring but Essential Choice **[The Serious CTO](https://daily.dev/sources/seriouscto)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A short take advocating that relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB) should remain the default choice for most product teams. They provide relationships, constraints, transactions, indexes, migrations, joins, and ad hoc SQL — giving businesses a shared source of truth that outweighs the theoretical flexibility of alternatives. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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