Databases in 2025: A Year in Review

Published: 2 days ago (January 5, 2026 at 02:14 AM EST)

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Source: Hacker News

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Article URL: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103
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