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imo having had to deal with oracle sql, teradata sql, mssql and mysql, postgres as a dialect is such a sane and consistent experience.

Also the ecosystem... The official docs basically solve your problems without much fuss, you don't have to rely on horrible vendor-specific forums.

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While you have a good point, I need to say that traditional databases and distributed databases differ in some points. For instance in YDB you can connect to any node of a database, it means that you need some kind of balancing (server side or client side). I'm not talking about SQL dialect right now, but rather how you connect to database and how you handle connection losses or node overloads. YDB SDKs have client side balancing feature to distribute load evenly across database nodes.

> The official docs basically solve your problems without much fuss, you don't have to rely on horrible vendor-specific forums.

tdodbc also comes with examples that are so far beyond the scope of a normal persons usecase, they honestly just feel like some greybeard doing the equivalent of a 10 minute long Tony Hawk combo. It's just such a pain in the butt to use, we had to fight teradata all the way till very recently.

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