In a world where the development stack flourishes with unmatched scalability and microservices thrive in the embrace of private or public clouds, a quest for the ultimate scaling solution continues. While NoSQL databases have emerged as a solution, they come at the cost of sacrificing certain features crucial for consistent and reliable databases. Traditional SQL databases rely on supplementary layers, augmenting their recovery solutions with eventually consistent read replicas. However, the landscape has transformed, allowing this final piece to scale out effortlessly without compromising efficiency and performance with Distributed SQL. Let us embark on this captivating quest and delve into the world of the new SQL databases, with a focus on Distributed PostgreSQL with YugabyteDB