It's curious to see news about many database products that have come out only recently, since in my personal experience I've seen some companies and their products just evaporate (for example, Clusterpoint a number of years back).
Of course, if there's a sufficient amount of hype/mindshare from the industry towards a certain technology, it feels like the critical mass of attention might perhaps be there to sustain the projects and ensure adoption that's widespread enough for the companies behind them to profit and stay around.
It's also nice to see mentions of MySQL, albeit sadly there's nothing of MariaDB, which has become the "replacement" for MySQL in some projects out there due to the pretty good compatibility: https://mariadb.org/
They even seem to have their own cloud offering, though I cannot comment on it personally (it feels enterprisey and generally I run my own DBs, or let someone manage them in other projects): https://mariadb.com/products/skysql/
Though it's also nice to see PostgreSQL remain popular and it's generally one of the better options for most of the projects out there in my eyes. It has decent tooling, good driver support and lots of useful functionality and plugins (things like PostGIS, for example). I think the article puts it nicely, even if someone could nitpick about the wording:
> PS is batteries included. When a company chooses PG, it gets a database with OLTP, OLAP, Document (JSON-B), FTS (tsvector/tsquery), Time-series (TimescaleDB), Geospatial (PostGIS), Multi-tenancy capabilities (batteries included). To summarize it in a simple formula:
> PostgreSQL = MySQL + Poor man version of (ClickHouse + MongoDB* + Elasticsearch + InfluxDB) + Geospatial + Multi-tenancy
Then again, I come from Latvia and generally the technology choices that I've seen are a bit on the "boring" side (which isn't always a bad thing). Lots of PostgreSQL, some MySQL (sometimes MariaDB), though also proprietary offerings like Oracle DB or MS SQL in enterprise projects. Here, certain solutions are comparatively rare, like MongoDB, Redis or RabbitMQ/Kafka.
CockroachDB, ClickHouse, Yugabyte, CouchDB and a bunch of others are basically unheard of. I suspect that in certain capacity it's "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM", in part the fact that the tech scene here is lukewarm at best and people aren't interested in experimenting that much, or maybe just choose whatever has worked decently in the past.
I wonder whether one can read more into this trend, with countries like mine being a few years behind in adoption of certain new things. Only recently (the past few years) seeing Kubernetes at scale comes to mind.
Oh, I also have to support the argument that SQLite is pretty nice for simpler setups, or as an application format. My homepage actually runs on SQLite, since it doesn't need to scale much.