PostgreSQL
MVCC relational server with the widest SQL surface and a deep extension ecosystem.
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PostgreSQL brand colours
Extracted from the artwork and ranked by how much of the mark each covers — not from a brand book, so treat them as observed rather than official.
What PostgreSQL is
PostgreSQL is a client/server relational database descended from Berkeley POSTGRES, governed by a contributor community rather than a company. Its extension mechanism is the reason it keeps absorbing adjacent categories: PostGIS made it a geospatial database, TimescaleDB a time-series one, and pgvector a vector store. The trade is operational weight — autovacuum, bloat and a process per connection are yours to manage.
Recent changes
- 2025-09-25PostgreSQL 18 released
An asynchronous I/O subsystem, uuidv7() in core, skip scan for multi-column B-tree indexes, virtual generated columns, and — quietly the most useful item — planner statistics that survive pg_upgrade, removing the post-upgrade ANALYZE window during which a freshly migrated cluster plans badly.
- 2025-06-04MariaDB 11.8 LTS ships vector search in the community server
A VECTOR column type with an approximate nearest-neighbour index reaches GA in a mainstream open-source relational engine, without an enterprise tier. It landed ahead of MySQL, whose 9.x VECTOR type still leans on HeatWave for approximate indexing, and it narrows one of pgvector's few remaining structural advantages.
- 2025-05-14Databricks acquires Neon
Serverless Postgres gets absorbed into a data-platform vendor at roughly a billion dollars, on the stated thesis that agents create databases faster than humans do. Read it as confirmation that the money in this category is entirely in who operates the engine, which is why this page has no pricing column.