The Rise of PostgreSQL as the Everything Database | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026
PostgreSQL is becoming the unified 'everything database', replacing fragmented specialized data stacks.
“50% of the developer time, you know, I repeat, 50%, which is pretty much half of the developer time, is wasted in maintaining the pipelines and not really building the new features.”
A Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL PM argues that fragmented OLTP/OLAP/cache/vector stacks impose a 'data movement tax' wasting half of developer time, and that Postgres's extensibility now lets it serve as a single unified database. Backed by Stack Overflow 2025 survey data showing Postgres as the top database, it signals an industry shift toward consolidation over specialized data stores. It matters for data infrastructure and AI app architecture but is more of a trend pitch than a hard announcement.