PG Ecosystem on Vonng

Happy 30th Birthday, PostgreSQL

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On July 8, 1996, the PostgreSQL community picked up the flame from Postgres95. Thirty years later, it has grown from a Berkeley research project into a default foundation of the global database ecosystem.

PGConf.Dev 2026 Opens Today in Vancouver

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

PGConf.Dev 2026 opens in Vancouver as the PostgreSQL project marks its 30th anniversary. I will also be speaking on Extensions for Everyone.

The pgBackRest Rescue and Open Source's Forced Price Discovery

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Seven days after pgBackRest was archived, David Steele said a coalition of sponsors was nearly in place and the project would probably live on. This was not just a heartwarming community story. It was a remarkably clean exercise in forcing the market to price an open-source commons.

PostgreSQL vs. MySQL in 2026

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

By 2026, PostgreSQL has won the market for new database adoption, outperforming MySQL across developer adoption, vendor strategy, capital markets, and community governance. MySQL still owns the installed base; Postgres owns the growth.

PostgreSQL Dominates Database World, but Who Will Devour PG?

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The same forces that once led MongoDB and MySQL toward closure are now at work in the PostgreSQL ecosystem. The PG world needs a distribution that represents “software freedom” values.

PostgreSQL Has Dominated the Database World

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The 2025 SO global developer survey results are fresh out, and PostgreSQL has become the most popular, most loved, and most wanted database for the third consecutive year. Nothing can stop PostgreSQL from consolidating the entire database world!

Alicloud’s rds_duckdb: Tribute or Rip-Off?

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Does bolting DuckDB onto RDS suddenly make open-source Postgres ‘trash’? Business and open source should be symbiotic. If a vendor only extracts without giving back, the community will spit it out."

PostgreSQL Ecosystem Frontier Developments

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Sharing some interesting recent developments in the PG ecosystem.

The Ideal Way to Deliver PostgreSQL Extensions

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL is eating the database world through extensibility. This post introduces the Pigsty extension repository, which packaged 390 PostgreSQL extensions at launch and keeps growing through the Pigsty extension catalog.

MongoDB Has No Future: Good Marketing Can't Save a Rotten Mango

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

MongoDB has a terrible track record on integrity, lackluster products and technology, gets beaten by PG in correctness, performance, and functionality, with collapsing developer reputation, declining popularity, stock price halving, and expanding losses. Provocative marketing against PG can’t save it with “good marketing.”

Can PostgreSQL Replace Microsoft SQL Server?

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL can directly replace Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB at the kernel level. Of course, the most thorough replacement is SQL Server - AWS’s Babelfish provides wire-protocol-level compatibility.

Whoever Integrates DuckDB Best Wins the OLAP World

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Just like the vector database extension race two years ago, the current PostgreSQL ecosystem extension competition has begun revolving around DuckDB. MotherDuck’s official entry into the PostgreSQL extension space undoubtedly signals that competition has entered white-hot territory.

StackOverflow 2024 Survey: PostgreSQL Has Gone Completely Berserk

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The 2024 StackOverflow Global Developer Survey results are fresh out, and PostgreSQL has become the most popular, most loved, and most wanted database globally for the second consecutive year. Nothing can stop PostgreSQL from devouring the entire database world anymore!

PGCon.Dev 2024, The conf that shutdown PG for a week

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Experience & Feeling on the PGCon.Dev 2024

Postgres is eating the database world

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm.

Technical Minimalism: Just Use PostgreSQL for Everything

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Whether production databases should be containerized remains a controversial topic. From a DBA’s perspective, I believe that currently, putting production databases in Docker is still a bad idea.

New PostgreSQL Ecosystem Player: ParadeDB

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ParadeDB aims to be an Elasticsearch alternative: “Modern Elasticsearch Alternative built on Postgres” — PostgreSQL for search and analytics.

PostgreSQL Wins 2024 Database of the Year Award! (Fifth Time)

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

DB-Engines officially announced today that PostgreSQL has once again been crowned “Database of the Year.” This is the fifth time PG has received this honor in the past seven years. If not for Snowflake stealing the spotlight for two years, the database world would have almost become a PostgreSQL solo show.

FerretDB: PostgreSQL Disguised as MongoDB

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

FerretDB aims to provide a truly open-source MongoDB alternative based on PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL, The most successful database

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

StackOverflow 2023 Survey shows PostgreSQL is the most popular, loved, and wanted database, solidifying its status as the ‘Linux of Database’.

How Powerful is PostgreSQL Really?

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Let performance data speak: Why PostgreSQL is the world’s most advanced open-source relational database, aka the world’s most successful database. MySQL vs PostgreSQL performance showdown and distributed database reality check.

Why PostgreSQL is the Most Successful Database?

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Database users are developers, but what about developers’ preferences, likes, and choices? Looking at StackOverflow survey results over the past six years, it’s clear that in 2022, PostgreSQL has won all three categories, becoming literally the “most successful database”

Why Does PostgreSQL Have a Bright Future?

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sat, 08 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Databases are the core component of information systems, relational databases are the absolute backbone of databases, and PostgreSQL is the world’s most advanced open source relational database. With such favorable timing and positioning, how can it not achieve great success?

What Are PostgreSQL's Advantages?

rh@vonng.com (Ruohang Feng) — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL’s slogan is “The World’s Most Advanced Open-Source Relational Database,” but I think the most vivid characterization should be: The Full-Stack Database That Does It All - one tool to rule them all.