The author provides an annual roundup of database happenings, highlighting significant events from the past year such as license changes by Redis and Elasticsearch. In a turbulent year full of acquisitions, the cloud’s influence on open-source databases becomes evident as companies struggle to protect their products from being resold by cloud vendors. The Databricks vs. Snowflake feud intensifies, showcasing a battle beyond performance numbers to include the ecosystem around the database. DuckDB gains popularity for analytical queries, leading to multiple extensions for Postgres. Additionally, the author touches on other random database events from the past year.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2025/01/2024-databases-retrospective.html