# Databases in 2022: A Year in Review

DevFeed: [Databases in 2022: A Year in Review](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/databases-in-2022-a-year-in-review-33714.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2022/12/2022-databases-retrospective.html>)

Author: Andy Pavlo

Published: 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/andy-pavlo-carnegie-mellon-university.md>)

Topics: [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [DuckDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/duckdb.md>), [MariaDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mariadb.md>), [Query (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/query.md>), [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>), [Time Series](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/time-series.md>)

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## AI overview

A retrospective on the database world in 2022, covering quieter benchmark competition, database startup funding, and notable developments involving companies and technologies such as PostgreSQL, DuckDB, Druid, Trino, and MariaDB. It finds that large funding rounds slowed substantially in the second half of the year.

## Source excerpt

Andy is back with his analysis of the database world in 2022, including VC funding, blockchains, and Larry Ellison.