# Database Guru

> News, reports, surveys and best practices from the database industry — cutting through the marketing.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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Section pages:

- [Catalog Bullshit: Take the Database Apart, Then Rent a PostgreSQL Table Back to You](/db/catalog-bullshit/)
- [AWS Acquires DuckDB: The Duck Flies into the Amazon Rainforest](/db/aws-get-duckdb/)
- [Apple Skipped the Event and Quietly Launched a 512 GB Mac Studio](/db/apple-m5-ultra/)
- [Omarchy: Is There Hope for Desktop Linux?](/db/omarchy-desktop/)
- [Did PostgreSQL Win Because Oracle Screwed Up?](/db/thank-oracle/)
- [SOW: Postpartum Care for 100,000 Packages](/db/sow/)
- [OINK: After Six Years of Wrestling with Documentation Frameworks, Codex Finally Got Me Over the Line](/db/oink-release/)
- [A Packaging Patch Has Been Corrupting Valkey's Memory Accounting Since 2017](/db/valkey-bug/)
- [Silo: A Maintained, MinIO-Compatible Object Store](/db/long-live-silo/)
- [How a Word Dies](/db/the-you-know-who/)
- [MySQL 9.7: Same Old Leftovers, Reheated](/db/mysql-97-bye/)
- [Two months into maintaining a MinIO fork](/db/minio-promise-kept/)
- [Put Your AI Agent's State in a Database](/db/agent-state-db/)
- [360 Shipped Its Wildcard TLS Private Key Inside a Public Installer](/db/claude-360-claw/)
- [After the Debate, Let's Talk Seriously About 'Ontology'](/db/ontology-again/)
- [InsForge: A Supabase Built for Vibe Coding](/db/insforge/)
- [Palantir's Ontology Narrative](/db/ontology-bullshit/)
- [MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO](/db/minio-resurrect/)
- [Data 2025: The year in review with Mike Stonebraker](/db/db-year-review-2025/)
- [What Kind of Database Do AI Agents Need?](/db/agent-native-db/)
- [MySQL and Baijiu: The Internet’s Obedience Test](/db/mysql-baijiu/)
- [Victoria: The Observability Stack That Slaps the Industry](/db/victoria-stack/)
- [MinIO Is Dead. Who Picks Up the Pieces?](/db/minio-alternative/)
- [MinIO is Dead](/db/minio-is-dead/)
- [When Answers Become Abundant, Questions Become the New Currency](/db/ai-question/)
- [On Trusting Open-Source Supply Chains](/db/tuna-mirror-site/)
- [Don't Run Docker Postgres for Production!](/db/no-docker-pg/)
- [Column: Database Guru](/db/guru/)
- [Dongchedi Just Exposed “Smart Driving.” Where’s Our Dongku-Di?](/db/car-autopilot-test/)
- [Where Will Databases and DBAs Go in the AI Era?](/db/ai-dba-job/)
- [Stop Arguing, The AI Era Database Has Been Settled](/db/db-for-ai/)
- [Scaling Postgres to the next level at OpenAI](/db/openai-pg/)
- [How Many Shops Has etcd Torched?](/db/bad-etcd/)
- [MySQL vs. PostgreSQL @ 2025](/db/mysql-vs-pgsql/)
- [Database Planet Collision: When PG Falls for DuckDB](/db/pg-kiss-duckdb/)
- [Comparing Oracle and PostgreSQL Transaction Systems](/db/oracle-pg-xact/)
- [Database as Business Architecture](/db/db-is-the-arch/)
- [7 Databases in 7 Weeks (2025)](/db/7-week-7-db/)
- [Solving the 24-Point Card Game with a Single SQL Query](/db/poker-24/)
- [Self-Hosting Supabase on PostgreSQL](/db/supabase/)
- [Open-Source "Tyrant" Linus's Purge](/db/linus-ban-ru/)
- [Optimize Bio Cores First, CPU Cores Second](/db/bio-core-cpu-core/)
- [MongoDB Has No Future: Good Marketing Can't Save a Rotten Mango](/db/bad-mongo/)
- [MongoDB: Now Powered by PostgreSQL?](/db/mongo-powered-by-pg/)
- [CVE-2024-6387 SSH Vulnerability Fix](/db/cve-2024-6387/)
- [Can Chinese Domestic Databases Really Compete?](/db/db-china/)
- [The $20 Brother PolarDB: What Should Databases Actually Cost?](/db/cheap-polar/)
- [Redis Going Non-Open-Source is a Disgrace to "Open-Source" and Public Cloud](/db/redis-oss/)
- [MySQL's ACID is a real mess](/db/bad-mysql/)
- [Database in K8S: Pros & Cons](/db/db-in-k8s/)
- [Are Specialized Vector Databases Dead?](/db/svdb-is-dead/)
- [Are Databases Really Being Strangled?](/db/db-choke/)
- [Which EL-Series OS Distribution Is Best?](/db/rhel-compatibility/)
- [What Kind of Self-Reliance Do Infra Software Need?](/db/sovereign-dbos/)
- [Back to Basics: Tech Reflection Chronicles](/db/rethink/)
- [Database Demand Hierarchy Pyramid](/db/demand-pyramid/)
- [NewSQL: Distributive Nonsens](/db/distributive-bullshit/)
- [Is running postgres in docker a good idea?](/db/pg-in-docker/)
- [Understanding Time - Leap Years, Leap Seconds, Time and Time Zones](/db/reason-about-time/)
- [Understanding Character Encoding Principles](/db/character-encoding/)
- [Concurrency Anomalies Explained](/db/concurrent-control/)
- [Blockchain and Distributed Databases](/db/blockchian/)
- [Consistency: An Overloaded Term](/db/consistency/)
- [Why Study Database Principles](/db/why-learn-database/)