Stop Running 5 Databases: PostgreSQL Does It All in 2026 (opens in new tab)

How a 35-year-old open-source database became the default choice for relational storage, full-text search, vector AI workloads, geospatial queries, and event-driven architecture — in a single deployment. Most production architectures look like a small city: a relational database for core data, a document store for flexible schemas, an Elasticsearch cluster for search, a vector database for AI-powered features, and a message broker stitching it all together. Five services. Five deployment pipe...