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Postgres Is Eating the Database World
Bởi Tomás Herrera | 2 thg 7, 2026 | 6 phút đọc
The extensible monolith
Every few years, a new database category emerges — and a few years later, Postgres absorbs it. Vector databases were the latest example: purpose-built vendors raised hundreds of millions, then pgvector shipped and captured the majority of production workloads almost overnight.
Why extensions win
The pattern is structural. A specialized database must rebuild everything Postgres already has: transactions, replication, backups, access control, an ecosystem of tools. An extension inherits all of it for free. For most workloads, 80% of the specialized performance with 100% of the operational maturity is the winning trade.
The limits
Postgres does not win everywhere. Planet-scale distributed writes, sub-millisecond caching, and true columnar analytics at petabyte scale still demand purpose-built systems. But the bar for "you need a specialized database" keeps rising every year.
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