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Starfleet will fly Postgres AI apps from prototype to production, says pgEdge

Starfleet could help enterprises close the gap between AI prototypes and production by giving developers a path to avoid rewrites while giving IT greater control over deployment, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 28, 20264 mins

DatabasesPostgreSQLRelational Databases

Articles

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.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 5, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabases

Why DocumentDB can be a win for MongoDB

If the company can embrace influence rather than control, it has the opportunity to help define the open document standard, which will encourage even more growth in the category.

By Matt Asay

Sep 1, 2025 8 mins

DatabasesOpen Source

Databricks to acquire open-source database startup Neon to build the next wave of AI agents

Neon can spin up databases in milliseconds, making it ideal for building, and running, agentic AI.

By Taryn Plumb

May 14, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabases

MySQL at 30: Still important but no longer king

Once the main go-to database for developers, MySQL has lost ground to Postgres and other specialized databases.

By Matt Asay

May 12, 2025 9 mins

Databases

Google adds natural language query capabilities to AlloyDB

At its Cloud Next conference, Google is showing off a new AI engine for AlloyDB that enables developers to embed natural language questions in SQL queries.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 9, 2025 5 mins

DatabasesGoogle Cloud Platform

Google’s AlloyDB is looking more and more like PostgreSQL

New filtering and observability functionality is similar to that of PostgreSQL, but Google has optimized it for performance.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Feb 28, 2025 3 mins

DatabasesGoogle Cloud Platform

Microsoft’s new DocumentDB rethinks NoSQL on PostgreSQL

Standalone document-oriented database gives developers an open-source alternative to MongoDB now and perhaps an industry standard NoSQL API and engine later.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 30, 2025 8 mins

Cloud ComputingDatabasesSoftware Development

3 great new features in Postgres 17

Highly optimized incremental backups, expanded SQL/JSON support, and a configurable SLRU cache are three of the most impactful new features in the latest PostgreSQL release.

By Tom Kincaid

Sep 26, 2024 6 mins

AnalyticsDatabasesSoftware Development