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I tend to chose PostgreSQL because of the query language. It is more comfortable to program in.

As ORMs become more prevalent, things like query language start to become less relevant, but so do relational databases. I really don't care how my data is stored, as long as it's safe and performs well.

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ORMs are a case of "good enough for most," however, I have seen ridiculously dramatic increases in performance when dealing with millions of DB rows by using SQL and stored procedures. By design, it's pretty much impossible for an ORM to ever reach such levels of performance since they need to be generic enough to work across various RDMS systems and so forth.