---
title: "Postgres is eating the database world"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-qgikibapv
source_url: https://medium.com/@fengruohang/postgres-is-eating-the-database-world-157c204dcfc4
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-03-15T05:21:52.859Z
updated: 2025-09-06T02:35:08.846Z
tags: ["duckdb", "olap", "postgresql"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 777
comments: 37
language: en
---

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# 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.

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## 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

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Tags: [#duckdb](https://daily.dev/tags/duckdb), [#olap](https://daily.dev/tags/olap), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql)

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