One of the biggest trends in software development today is the emergence of PostgreSQL as the de facto database standard. There have been a few blog p

Why PostgreSQL Is the Bedrock for the Future of Data

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One of the biggest trends in software development today is the emergence of PostgreSQL as the de facto database standard. There have been a few blog posts on how to use PostgreSQL for Everything, but none yet on why this is happening (and more importantly, why this matters). Until now.

Thanks to its rock-solid foundation, plus its versatility through native features and extensions, developers can now use PostgreSQL for Everything, replacing complex, brittle data architectures with straightforward simplicity:

This might help explain why PostgreSQL last year took the top spot from MySQL in the rankings for most popular database among professional developers (60,369 respondents):

Those results are from the 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey. If you look across time, you can see the steady increase in PostgreSQL adoption over the past few years:

This is not just a trend among small startups and hobbyists. In fact, PostgreSQL usage is increasing across organizations of all sizes: