Autonomous DB can run on-premises or in any cloud, not just Oracle's cloud. So it's not quite the same.

I think PG doesn't have most of the features I named, I'm pretty sure it doesn't have integrated queues for example (SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED isn't an MQ system), but also, bear in mind the "postgres" cloud vendors sell is often not actually Postgres. They've forked it and are exploiting the weak trademark protection, so people can end up more locked in than they think. In the past one cloud even shipped a transaction isolation bug in something they were calling managed Postgres, that didn't exist upstream! So then you're stuck with both a single DB and a single cloud.

Local dev is the same as other DBs:

    docker run -d --name <oracle-db> container-registry.oracle.com/database/free:latest

Works on Intel and ARM. I develop on an ARM Mac without issue. It starts up in a few seconds.

Cost isn't necessarily much lower. At one point I specced out a DB equivalent to what a managed Postgres would cost for OpenAI's reported workload:

> I knocked up an estimate using Azure's pricing calculator and the numbers they provide, assuming 5TB of data (under-estimate) and HA option. Even with a 1 year reservation @40% discount they'd be paying (list price) around $350k/month. For that amount you can rent a dedicated Oracle/ExaData cluster with 192 cores! That's got all kinds of fancy hardware optimizations like a dedicated intra-cluster replication network, RDMA between nodes, predicate pushdown etc. It's going to perform better, and have way more features that would relieve their operational headache.

In the spirit of helpfulness (not pedantry) FYI "knocked up" means "impregnated". Maybe "put together"?

And, again... most of my issues are with Oracle, Inc. So technical advantages are less of a consideration.