Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world

Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker ...
InfoQ

PostgreSQL 17 Released with Improved Vacuum Process and Performance Gains

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InfoWorld

PostgreSQL 18 to boost OLTP performance, but misses AI readiness

The upcoming release adds asynchronous I/O and UUID v7 for faster transactions, yet lacks features to support HTAP and agentic AI workloads. The upcoming version of PostgreSQL 18, the latest release ...
ZDNet

PostgreSQL 17 packs big performance and feature enhancements

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CIO

Microsoft’s PostgreSQL alternative, HorizonDB: Worth the wait?

Microsoft’s extended HorizonDB preview gives CIOs little reason to wait when production-ready PostgreSQL alternatives are ...

Azure PostgreSQL led Amazon RDS on OLTP throughput, with no HA penalty, in third-party testing

Principled Technologies found an Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server handled up to 79% more database requests ...