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"Postgres is basically going to be around forever". My favourite quote from the article and a really great point. Even with RethinkDB going opensource there's o

"Postgres is basically going to be around forever". My favourite quote from the article and a really great point. Even with RethinkDB going opensource there's only been one single release in the last year, and it was a bug fix release.

noncoml 9y ago
With RethinkDB and Basho going out of business, it has an interesting year for databases. I think we are seeing the dawn of the new databases golden era, and the world is converging to 3-4 databases, that is Postgres, Cassandra and Mongo and ElasticSearch.
- paxy 9y ago
  MySQL still has massive usage, and isn't going anywhere.
  - noncoml 9y ago
    Agreed, I meant other than Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB and MSSQL, which are the top 3 anyway.