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I’m still amazed that with all the vibe coding, no one has created a Postgres alternative
Why would they? Postgres is free and does an amazing job.
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You can create a project on vibes, but you cannot maintain one on vibes.
Many recent relational databases speak the Postgres wire protocol. For wholesale replacement, pgrust is a recent, contentious contender.
I hope you don't believe this, PGRust has fallen far from grace. Wire protocol support is useful (other than said recommendation)

Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching) (197 points, 10 days ago, 166 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50205816

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