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Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines

Which databases are rising and falling in developer mind-share? Our 18-year Hacker News analysis shows PostgreSQL’s dominance, DuckDB and ClickHouse’s explosive growth, and cloud SaaS engines’ sharp decline heading into 2025.

The chart below shows monthly headline counts for the eight most-talked-about engines, plus DuckDB (small base, big growth). EngineHeadlines 2024-252023-24YoY Δ %3-yr slope (mentions / mo)DuckDB225149+50.7 %+0.44ClickHouse211170+24.1 %+0.39Supabase10584+25.0 %+0.12PostgreSQL1 2291 315−6.6 %+1.22Snowflake106156−32.1 %+0.01Redis180236−23.7 %+0.07MySQL164185−11.4 %+0.03MongoDB9678+23.1 %+0.03DynamoDB2538−34.2 %−0.08BigQuery2035−42.9 %−0.05Redshift1018−44.4 %−0.05TimescaleDB34−25.0 %−0.01DuckDB tops the growth chart: half of its lifetime headlines appeared this year. ClickHouse maintains double-digit gains on a larger base, buoyed by vector search & managed services.

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