Databases in 2024: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)

545 points by avinassh 1 year ago | 175 comments

Andy Pavlo's annual blog retrospective on the database industry in 2024, covering acquisitions, license changes, and other notable events.

Databases in 2023: A Year in Review(ottertune.com)

65 points by mustache_kimono 2 years ago | 9 comments

Building a Database in the 2020s (2022)(me.0xffff.me)

91 points by lawrencechen 3 years ago | 42 comments

MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)(cs.cmu.edu)

341 points by virtualwhys 2 years ago | 109 comments

Andy Pavlo blog post from April 2023 criticizing PostgreSQL's multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) implementation and its drawbacks.

Milvus Vector Database in 2023(milvus.io)

4 points by Fendyfd 2 years ago | 0 comments

From web developer to database developer in 10 years(notes.eatonphil.com)

150 points by pmbanugo 11 months ago | 58 comments

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)

545 points by avinassh 1 year ago | 175 comments

Andy Pavlo's annual blog retrospective on the database industry in 2024, covering acquisitions, license changes, and other notable events.

7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025(matt.blwt.io)

380 points by yarapavan 1 year ago | 109 comments

Blog post by Matt Blewitt recommending seven database technologies to study for a week each in 2025, including Postgres, SQLite, DuckDB, ClickHouse, and others.

Databases and why their complexity is now unnecessary(blog.redplanetlabs.com)

318 points by adamfeldman 2 years ago | 303 comments

Red Planet Labs blog post by Nathan Marz arguing that traditional databases impose needless complexity and that newer approaches make it unnecessary.

Big data is dead (2023)(motherduck.com)

548 points by armanke13 2 years ago | 428 comments

A 2023 MotherDuck blog post by Jordan Tigani arguing that the era of big data is over and most organizations' data workloads are small.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

2025: The Year in LLMs(simonwillison.net)

823 points by simonw 9 months ago | 451 comments

Simon Willison's annual blog post reviewing major LLM trends of 2025, including reasoning models, coding agents, Chinese open weight models, and Gemini.