One really cool thing in the analytics space is the adoption of columnar data stores. PostgreSQL and MySQL don't do this. (If they can please correct me!). This

One really cool thing in the analytics space is the adoption of columnar data stores. PostgreSQL and MySQL don't do this. (If they can please correct me!). This is for embedded loads, situations where you might use SQLite, there are now really interesting alternatives like MonetDB and DuckDB. Paper: https://hannes.muehleisen.org/SIGMOD2019-demo-duckdb.pdf https://hannes.muehleisen.org/SIGMOD2019-demo-duckdb.pdf