It's more than python development as there are a lot of complexity added in order to keep performance under control (indexing 500gb of data and querying it is not trivial).

Might be if you are new python and postgres dev but for python devs like @holger80 if he is familiar with postgres would be super simple.

Yes, I did read other comments... would make sense to spend time on hived since you learned it with DHF funds for testing smts, etc. Now spending extra time to learn python and postgres, just doesn't seem fair and effective use of funds. Anyway, up to you and your motives I guess... good luck with development 😉