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Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.

There is much to cover from the past year, from 10-figure acquisitions, vendors running wild in the streets with license changes, and the most famous database octogenarian splashing cash to recruit a college quarterback to impress his new dimepiece. Later, the world found out that the Informix CEO had cooked the company’s books to inflate revenue numbers to look better against Oracle and had to do a two-month bid in the federal clink. In June 2024, ParadeDB announced their open-source extension ( pg_analytics) that uses Postgres' foreign data wrapper API to call into DuckDB; they previously were using DataFusion in an earlier version ( pg_lakehouse) but switched to the Duck.

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