--- title: Postgres is eating the database world | daily.dev description: PostgreSQL is an advanced, open-source, and extensible data management framework that is capable of competing with Oracle and MySQL. It offers a wide range of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-qgikibapv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Postgres is eating the database world | daily.dev og:description: PostgreSQL is an advanced, open-source, and extensible data management framework that is capable of competing with Oracle and MySQL. It offers a wide range of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-qgikibapv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QGIKibaPV.png og:image:alt: Postgres is eating the database world 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. # Postgres is eating the database world **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 3 min read · 777 upvotes · 37 comments ## Summary PostgreSQL is an advanced, open-source, and extensible data management framework that is capable of competing with Oracle and MySQL. It offers a wide range of analysis-related extensions and has the potential to become a unified, super-converged database. The emergence of PostgreSQL has shifted the paradigms in the database domain, and it is now considered a mainstream best practice. In the future, the focus will be on database extensions and services, and PostgreSQL ecosystem extensions are expected to lead the way towards a monopoly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 42 upvotes > Postgres is the real goat 🐐 **@ghost** · 10 upvotes > Nice. Simplification instead of more Databases **@carlaquilina** · 8 upvotes > I think PostgreSQL will lead the way and still not be the monopoly as many systems are well bound to other DBM's. They might follow whatever PGSQL does to keep their own customer base. I do honestly want more simplicity but on the other hand competitiveness keeps us going and improving. **@ombratteng** · 2 upvotes > \*mic drop\* > > https://www.amazingcto.com/postgres-for-everything/ **@hantian\_pang** · 2 upvotes > I love PostgreSQL for its high performance --- Tags: [#duckdb](https://daily.dev/tags/duckdb), [#olap](https://daily.dev/tags/olap), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-qgikibapv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Postgres is eating the database world","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-qgikibapv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-qgikibapv"},"datePublished":"2024-03-15T05:21:52.859Z","dateModified":"2025-09-06T02:35:08.846Z","description":"PostgreSQL is an advanced, open-source, and extensible data management framework that is capable of competing with Oracle and MySQL. 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