PG-Ecosystem on PIGSTY

Happy 30th Birthday, PostgreSQL

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On July 8, 1996, the PostgreSQL community picked up the flame from Postgres95. Thirty years later, it has grown from a Berkeley research project into a default foundation of the global database ecosystem. Read more

PostgreSQL Dominates Database World, but Who Will Devour PG?

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The same forces that once led MongoDB and MySQL toward closure are now at work in the PostgreSQL ecosystem. The PG world needs a distribution that represents “software freedom” values. Read more

PostgreSQL Has Dominated the Database World

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The 2025 SO global developer survey results are fresh out, and PostgreSQL has become the most popular, most loved, and most wanted database for the third consecutive year. Nothing can stop PostgreSQL from consolidating the entire database world! Read more

Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out." Read more

PostgreSQL Ecosystem Frontier Developments

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Sharing some interesting recent developments in the PG ecosystem. Read more

The ideal way to deliver PostgreSQL Extensions

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL Is Eating the Database World through the power of extensibility. With 555 extensions powering PG, we may not say it’s invincible, but it’s definitely getting much closer. Read more

MongoDB Has No Future: Good Marketing Can't Save a Rotten Mango

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

MongoDB has a terrible track record on integrity, lackluster products and technology, gets beaten by PG in correctness, performance, and functionality, with collapsing developer reputation, declining popularity, stock price halving, and expanding losses. Provocative marketing against PG can’t save it with “good marketing.” Read more

Can PostgreSQL Replace Microsoft SQL Server?

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL can directly replace Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB at the kernel level. Of course, the most thorough replacement is SQL Server - AWS’s Babelfish provides wire-protocol-level compatibility. Read more

Whoever Integrates DuckDB Best Wins the OLAP World

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Just like the vector database extension race two years ago, the current PostgreSQL ecosystem extension competition has begun revolving around DuckDB. MotherDuck’s official entry into the PostgreSQL extension space undoubtedly signals that competition has entered white-hot territory. Read more

StackOverflow 2024 Survey: PostgreSQL Has Gone Completely Berserk

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The 2024 StackOverflow Global Developer Survey results are fresh out, and PostgreSQL has become the most popular, most loved, and most wanted database globally for the second consecutive year. Nothing can stop PostgreSQL from devouring the entire database world anymore! Read more

PGCon.Dev 2024, The conf that shutdown PG for a week

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Experience & Feeling on the PGCon.Dev 2024 Read more

Why PostgreSQL is the Future Standard?

Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Author: Ajay Kulkarni (TimescaleDB CEO) | Original: Why PostgreSQL Is the Bedrock for the Future of Data

One of the biggest trends in software development today is PostgreSQL becoming the de facto database standard. This article explains why. Read more

Technical Minimalism: Just Use PostgreSQL for Everything

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Whether production databases should be containerized remains a controversial topic. From a DBA’s perspective, I believe that currently, putting production databases in Docker is still a bad idea. Read more

New PostgreSQL Ecosystem Player: ParadeDB

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ParadeDB aims to be an Elasticsearch alternative: “Modern Elasticsearch Alternative built on Postgres” — PostgreSQL for search and analytics. Read more

PostgreSQL Outlook for 2024

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Author: Jonathan Katz (PostgreSQL Core Team) | Original: PostgreSQL 2024

PostgreSQL core team member Jonathan Katz’s outlook for PostgreSQL in 2024, reviewing the progress made over the past few years. Read more

PostgreSQL Wins 2024 Database of the Year Award! (Fifth Time)

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

DB-Engines officially announced today that PostgreSQL has once again been crowned “Database of the Year.” This is the fifth time PG has received this honor in the past seven years. If not for Snowflake stealing the spotlight for two years, the database world would have almost become a PostgreSQL solo show. Read more

FerretDB: PostgreSQL Disguised as MongoDB

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

FerretDB aims to provide a truly open-source MongoDB alternative based on PostgreSQL. Read more

PostgreSQL, The most successful database

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

StackOverflow 2023 Survey shows PostgreSQL is the most popular, loved, and wanted database, solidifying its status as the ‘Linux of Database’. Read more

How Powerful is PostgreSQL Really?

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Let performance data speak: Why PostgreSQL is the world’s most advanced open-source relational database, aka the world’s most successful database. MySQL vs PostgreSQL performance showdown and distributed database reality check. Read more

Why PostgreSQL is the Most Successful Database?

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Database users are developers, but what about developers’ preferences, likes, and choices? Looking at StackOverflow survey results over the past six years, it’s clear that in 2022, PostgreSQL has won all three categories, becoming literally the “most successful database” Read more

Why Does PostgreSQL Have a Bright Future?

Sat, 08 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Databases are the core component of information systems, relational databases are the absolute backbone of databases, and PostgreSQL is the world’s most advanced open source relational database. With such favorable timing and positioning, how can it not achieve great success? Read more

What Are PostgreSQL's Advantages?

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL’s slogan is “The World’s Most Advanced Open-Source Relational Database,” but I think the most vivid characterization should be: The Full-Stack Database That Does It All - one tool to rule them all. Read more