For developers, there is no debate. The future of the database is open source. A glance at the 2022 Stack Overflow survey of around 70,000 code-wranglers shows nearly all pros use one of the two leading open source RDBMSes, PostgreSQL (46.5 percent) or MySQL (45.7 percent), although they use other systems as well.

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databases space (mainly NoSQL and hybrid) is still very proprietary. Only SQL you’re guaranteed with PostgreSQL. Source availabe is not the same as free software.

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Why would you use NoSQL when you can use PostgreSQL?

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