Comment by shimman

Feels like quibbling over the differences between two databases that are going to act the same for 90% of projects out there doesn't really matter.

If you want speed, just have your database stored in the same place as your application, locally, rather than hopping across the world to retrieve data that can be located next to the code.

That would probably be the easiest thing to do to get a real measured performance gains.

As other commentators pointed out, computers are extremely powerful. This isn't 1995, you can easily host everything in the same local area and get a very responsive application with very minimal needs to worry about resource constraints.