Domestic Innovation Series#
- 2025-02-28 Are There Any Competitive Domestic Databases?
- 2024-11-18 Such Hype About Domestic Databases Makes Me Cringe
- 2024-10-25 Open Source Emperor Linus’s Purge
- 2024-10-01 Second Batch of Database National Testing List: What to Do When Localization Comes?
- 2024-07-15 Airport Taxi Vicious Cycle and Domestic Database Paradox
- 2024-04-25 Can Domestic Databases Really Compete?
- 2024-01-11 Are Domestic Databases a Great Leap Forward?
- 2024-01-08 Is China’s Contribution to PostgreSQL Really Near Zero?
- 2023-11-02 Are Databases Really Being Strangled?
- 2023-10-09 Which EL-series OS Distribution is Best?
- 2023-08-31 What Kind of Self-reliance Does Infrastructure Software Really Need?
Industry Insights Series#
- 2025-05-27 Open Data Standards: Postgres, OTel, and Iceberg Paul
- 2025-05-23 The Lost Decade of Small Data: Misdirected Distributed Analytics
- 2025-04-27 SaaS is Dead? In the AI Era, Software Starts with Databases
- 2025-04-28 Distributed Databases are a False Need
- 2025-04-14 Claude Code Leak: The Hidden Truth Behind MCP’s Explosive Growth
- 2025-03-13 Database Collision: When PG Falls in Love with DuckDB
- 2025-03-10 HTAP Databases: A Performance with No Applause
- 2024-12-03 Seven Databases in Seven Weeks @ 2025
- 2024-11-21 Modern Hardware for Future Databases
- 2024-11-17 $20 Buddy PolarDB: What Should Databases Cost?
- 2024-08-13 Whoever Integrates DuckDB Well Wins the OLAP Database World
- 2023-11-22 Are Vector Databases Getting Cold?
- 2023-11-17 Reclaiming the Dividends of Computer Hardware
- 2023-04-17 Are Distributed Databases a False Need?
- 2023-03-29 Database Needs Hierarchy Pyramid
DBA/RDS Series#
- 2025-05-18 No Shortage of Good Database Kernels, Shortage of DBAs Who Can Use Databases Well
- 2025-05-09 This Time the Database Really Exploded, But Calling for Help Won’t Work
- 2025-04-28 What to Do When the Database Explodes?
- 2024-09-07 Optimize Carbon-based BIO Cores Before Silicon-based CPU Cores
- 2023-12-05 Should Databases be Put in K8S?
- 2023-12-04 Is Putting Databases in Docker a Good Idea?
- 2023-01-30 Are Cloud Databases an IQ Tax?
- 2022-05-16 Cloud RDS: From Database Deletion to Running Away
- 2024-02-02 Will DBAs be Eliminated by the Cloud?
- 2023-03-01 Refuting “Why You Shouldn’t Hire DBAs Again”
- 2023-01-31 Why Are You Still Hiring DBAs? Ma Gong
- 2022-05-10 Is DBA Still a Good Job?
PG Ecosystem Series#
- 2025-05-16 PGCon.dev Lightning Talk: Hard Control PG Experts for 5 Minutes
- 2025-04-09 PG Extension Summit Schedule Released, See You in Montreal
- 2025-04-06 OrioleDB Oreo Database is Here!
- 2025-04-03 PG Kernel with MySQL Compatibility Now Added to Pigsty
- 2025-03-01 PostgreSQL Gains Overwhelming Advantage Over MySQL
- 2025-01-01 Andy Pavlo: 2024 Database Year in Review
- 2024-12-18 PostgreSQL 2024 Community State Survey Report
- 2024-07-25 StackOverflow 2024 Survey: PostgreSQL Has Become Godlike
- 2024-03-24 Will PostgreSQL Change Its Open Source License?
- 2024-05-16 Why is PostgreSQL the Foundation of Future Data?
- 2024-03-16 PostgreSQL is eating the database world
- 2024-03-04 PostgreSQL is Devouring the Database World
- 2024-02-19 Technical Minimalism: Everything with Postgres
- 2024-01-03 2023 Database of the Year: PostgreSQL (DB-Engine)
- 2022-08-22 How Powerful is PostgreSQL Really?
- 2022-07-12 Why is PostgreSQL the Most Successful Database?
- 2022-06-24 StackOverflow 2022 Database Annual Survey
- 2021-05-08 Why PostgreSQL Has Unlimited Prospects?
Best Practices Series#
- 2025-05-19 OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to New Heights
- 2025-05-03 Film Riot DaVinci Ten-Million-Level Database Evolution and Practice
- 2025-03-21 PGFS: Using Database as File System
- 2024-11-30 Why Don’t You Use Connection Pooling?
- 2024-01-13 Amazing PostgreSQL Scalability
PG Release Series#
- 2024-11-15 Don’t Update! Release Day Halt: Even PG Can’t Avoid Major Crashes
- 2024-11-14 PostgreSQL 12 End of Life, PG 17 Takes Over
- 2024-11-02 PostgreSQL Mastery Complete! Most Comprehensive Extension Repository
- 2024-09-27 PostgreSQL 17 Released: Showdown Time, No More Pretending!
- 2024-09-05 PostgreSQL 17 RC1 Released! Recent PG News
- 2024-08-09 PostgreSQL Minor Version Update, 17beta3, 12 Will EOL
- 2024-05-24 PostgreSQL 17 Beta1 Released! Toothpaste Tube Exploded!
- 2024-01-14 Quick Guide to PostgreSQL Version Features
- 2024-01-05 Looking Forward to PostgreSQL’s 2024 (Jonathan Katz)
Startup Funding Series#
- 2025-05-12 Database Water Cooler: OpenAI to Acquire Supabase?
- 2025-05-06 PG Ecosystem Wins Capital Market Favor: Databricks Acquires Neon, Supabase Raises $200M, Microsoft Earnings Call Names PG
- 2024-09-26 PG-series Startup Supabase: $80M Series C Funding
- 2024-07-31 ClickHouse Acquires PeerDB: Even the Good Guys Want to Do PG?
- 2024-02-18 New PG Ecosystem Player ParadeDB
- 2023-10-08 FerretDB: PostgreSQL Disguised as MongoDB?
MySQL Killer Series#
- 2024-11-05 PZ: Does MySQL Still Have a Chance to Catch Up with PostgreSQL’s Momentum?
- 2024-07-12 MySQL New Version Malicious Bug: Too Many Tables and It Crashes!
- 2024-07-09 MySQL Ascends to the Ninth Heaven, PostgreSQL Sails Beyond Clouds
- 2024-06-26 Developers Using PG Earn 40% More Than MySQL?
- 2024-06-20 Oracle Finally Killed MySQL!
- 2024-06-19 MySQL Performance Getting Worse, Where Will Sakila Go?
- 2023-12-30 Why is MySQL’s Correctness So Poor?
- 2023-08-11 How to View the MySQL vs PGSQL Live Stream Farce
- 2023-08-09 Refuting “MySQL: The Most Successful Database on This Planet”
Other DB Series#
- 2024-09-04 MongoDB Has No Future: “Good Marketing” Can’t Save Rotten Mango
- 2024-09-03 “Dark History: Mongo”: Now Powered by PostgreSQL
- 2024-09-02 Can PostgreSQL Replace Microsoft SQL Server?
- 2024-08-30 ElasticSearch is Open Source Again???
- 2024-03-26 Redis Going Closed Source is a Shame to “Open Source” and Public Cloud
- 2023-10-08 FerretDB: PostgreSQL Disguised as MongoDB?
The Driver Himself Series#
- 2024-08-22 GOTC 2024 BTW Interview with Vonng: Pigsty Author, Simplifying PG Management, Promoting Chinese Participation in PG Open Source Community
- 2023-12-31 2023 Summary: Establishing at Thirty
- 2023-09-08 Vonng: A Tech Fanatic Who Doesn’t Want to Be a Comedian is Not a Good Open Source Founder
- 2022-07-07 Post-90s, Quit Job to Start Business, Claims to Kill Cloud Databases
Database Veteran Column#
- 2025-08-01 PostgreSQL Has Dominated the Database World
- 2025-07-26 Dongchedi Beats Up Smart Driving, Where is Dongyundi?
- 2025-07-25 Pigsty v3.6: A Key Step for the All-in-One PG Distribution
- 2025-07-21 AMD YES? Vonng’s Digital Recovery Story
- 2025-07-09 Google AI Toolbox: Production-Ready Database MCP is Here?
- 2025-07-07 Stranglehold: PostgreSQL Cuts Mirror Site Sync Channels
- 2025-07-04 Parting Ways: bcachefs Author Trash-talks Linus
- 2025-07-01 Pigsty: Wins Shanghai Open Source Innovation Elite Award
- 2025-06-30 Where Will Databases and DBAs Go in the AI Era
- 2025-06-29 PostgreSQL Summit: Conference Notes
- 2025-06-22 Pigsty v3.5 Released, 4K Stars, Supabase Self-hosting Optimization, PG18 Support, 421 PG Extensions, Brand New Website
- 2025-06-19 Software 3.0 Era: Paradigm Shift Brought by AI
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