Postgres šš for šš Everything! šš
PostgreSQL has become the de facto database platform.
Hereās why this matters:
1. Data is flooding the world:
Everything ā our cars, our homes, our cities, our factories, our farms ā is becoming a computer spewing tons of data.
2. Databases are flooding the world:
Two decades ago developers had maybe 5 database to choose from. Today that number is closer to 500, just to keep up with the data flood.
3. But more databases = more complexity = more problems:
Faced with the flood, we have had no choice but cobble together Rube Goldberg architectures with several different āpurpose-builtā database types: a relational database, a vector database, a time-series database, etc.
4. More complexity means less time to build:
Complex architectures are more brittle, need more complex application logic, and slow down development.
5. Instead of building the future, we are now maintaining the plumbing:
Developers are forced to spend their time and energy on the wrong things.
The answer is simplicity.
The answer is Postgres, for everything.
Thanks to extensions, Postgres is now a versatile platform. Thanks to pgvector, itās a vector database. Thanks to TimescaleDB, itās a time-series database. Thanks to PostGIS, itās a geospatial database.
Postgres is also still the same rock-solid relational database that developers and businesses have trusted with their core workloads for decades.
By choosing Postgres, developers can get back to the real work we are here to do: building the future.
Want to learn more? Read this longer post that I recently wrote:
timescale.com/blog/postgres-ā¦
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