State of Databases 2026

Databricks spent $1 billion on Neon. Snowflake grabbed Crunchy Data for a reported $250 million. Supabase went from a $2 billion to $5 billion valuation in four months. 2025 had one thesis: PostgreSQL wins. The PostgreSQL Renaissance: Billion-Dollar Bets on Open Source The numbers back it up. PostgreSQL hit 55.6% usage in Stack Overflow’s 2025 […]

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Ancient Penguin Fossils Offer New Window into Antarctica’s Changing Climate

A team of palaeontologists from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) studying penguin fossils from Seymour Island off the Antarctic Peninsula have demonstrated how ancient bird bones can act as chemical archives of past climate change. The researchers used non-destructive X-ray mapping to examine the elemental composition of penguin remains spanning millions of years. As such,

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