--- title: It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres | daily.dev description: Postgres extensions can replace specialized databases like Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB using the same core algorithms (BM25, HNSW,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/8jg5f5v0v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres | daily.dev og:description: Postgres extensions can replace specialized databases like Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB using the same core algorithms (BM25, HNSW,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/8jg5f5v0v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8jG5f5v0v.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # It’s 2026, Just Use Postgres **[Postgres Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/postgresdaily)** · [@bobbyiliev](https://daily.dev/bobbyiliev) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Postgres extensions can replace specialized databases like Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB using the same core algorithms (BM25, HNSW, DiskANN). Managing one database instead of seven reduces operational complexity, eliminates data sync issues, simplifies AI agent testing, and cuts infrastructure overhead. Extensions like pg_textsearch, pgvector, pgvectorscale, TimescaleDB, and PostGIS provide full-text search, vector search, time-series, caching, document storage, and geospatial capabilities within Postgres. For 99% of companies, Postgres handles all database needs without the cognitive load, monitoring burden, and failure modes of database sprawl. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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