Is anyone on Hacker News using YugabyteDB? While it offers PostgreSQL compatibility, I’ve found that simply converting a standard, normalized PostgreSQL database doesn’t work well in practice. Instead, you need to design your database with YugabyteDB’s distributed architecture in mind.<p>YugabyteDB—and CockroachDB, for that matter—seem to be somewhat niche. Despite the potential of distributed databases, you rarely hear about people using them.