Database Industry 2025: PostgreSQL Wins, MCP Security Crisis
PostgreSQL absorbed $1.25B in 2025 acquisitions while 13,000 MCP servers shipped without auth. Industry analysis: consolidation, security gaps, MongoDB lawsuit.
ClickHouse Acquires Langfuse at $15B Valuation
On January 16, 2026, ClickHouse dropped a triple bomb: a $400M Series D led by ...
HackerBook: 22GB SQLite Archive of Hacker News
A developer released HackerBook on December 31, 2025 – a complete 22GB SQLite archive containing ...
MongoBleed: 87K MongoDB Instances Leak Memory Unauth Attack
MongoDB disclosed CVE-2025-14847 (“MongoBleed”) on December 27, 2025 – a critical vulnerability allowing unauthenticated attackers ...
Supabase Security Flaw: 170+ Apps Exposed by Missing RLS
Thousands of Supabase databases are publicly accessible right now. Security researchers have demonstrated mass exploitation ...
Logging Infrastructure Cost Crisis: $140K Waste + 15% Budgets
Logging infrastructure is consuming 15-20% of infrastructure budgets with logs alone accounting for 50% of observability spending, according to Gartner research. Organizations routinely ...
Self-Host Postgres: Cut AWS Costs 40-60%, Not Hard
Pierce Freeman’s article “Go ahead, self-host Postgres” hit the top of Hacker News this week ...
Self-Hosting Postgres vs RDS: The $379/Month Lie
AWS RDS pricing hides 75-88% markups. HN debate reveals hidden costs, ops myths, and when ...
PostgreSQL UUID v4 Kills Performance: 50% I/O Waste
UUID v4 causes 50% more I/O in PostgreSQL. Learn why random UUIDs destroy B-tree performance ...
Azure HorizonDB: Microsoft’s 11-Year-Late Challenge to AWS Aurora
Microsoft just entered the managed PostgreSQL arena—11 years after AWS Aurora launched. Azure HorizonDB, now ...