If you’d like to try out PostgreSQL in a nice friendly hosted fashion then I highly recommend supabase.io
I came from MySQL and so I’m still just excited about the basic stuff like authentication and policies, but I really like how they’ve also integrated storage with the same permissions and auth too.
It’s also open source so if you can to just host it yourself you stil can.
And did I mention they’ll do your auth for you?
[Supabase cofounder] thanks for the kind words.
We're about to wrap up Row Level Security on our real-time APIs too[0] - soon you'll be able to use Policies universally on all APIs.