# Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

DevFeed: [Databases in 2025: A Year in Review](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/databases-in-2025-a-year-in-review-33719.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html>)

Author: Andy Pavlo

Published: 2026-01-04T05:00:00Z

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>), [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>)

## AI overview

An opinionated review of major database trends and events in 2025, highlighting PostgreSQL's continued prominence and changes in its version 18 release, including asynchronous I/O, skip scans, and query-optimizer improvements.

## Source excerpt

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.