# Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

DevFeed: [Databases in 2024: A Year in Review](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/databases-in-2024-a-year-in-review-33718.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2025/01/2024-databases-retrospective.html>)

Author: Andy Pavlo

Published: 2025-01-01T05:00:00Z

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>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elasticsearch.md>), [Redis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redis.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [MongoDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mongodb.md>), [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon.md>)

Tags: [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/elasticsearch.md>), [mongodb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mongodb.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>)

## AI overview

A retrospective on the 2024 database ecosystem, focusing on database-company business models, cloud competition, and restrictive source-code license changes involving Redis and Elasticsearch, with additional discussion of MongoDB and hosted database services.

## Source excerpt

Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.