# Databases in 2023: A Year in Review

DevFeed: [Databases in 2023: A Year in Review](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/databases-in-2023-a-year-in-review-33717.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2024/01/2023-databases-retrospective.html>)

Author: Andy Pavlo

Published: 2024-01-04T05:00:00Z

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>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Transformer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transformer.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [chatgpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chatgpt.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>), [searching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/searching.md>), [transformers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transformers.md>), [trends](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trends.md>), [vector](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vector.md>), [year-in-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/year-in-review.md>)

## AI overview

An annual review of major database developments and trends in 2023, focusing on the rise of vector databases and their use of embeddings and similarity search in applications influenced by large language models.

## Source excerpt

Andy recounts the rise of vector databases to SQL:2023 to MariaDB troubles and the FAA outage in 2023.